> Drug addiction, gambling, alcoholism, poor budgeting, mental illness I come from a middle class background and I know a number of people, in my extended fam

> Drug addiction, gambling, alcoholism, poor budgeting, mental illness I come from a middle class background and I know a number of people, in my extended family and in my middle-class community, who have made the same choices (BTW mental illness is not a choice), and it didn't put them in poverty. I don't think there's a strict cause and effect relationship there.