sounds like you had a tough or not very easy start to life, which isn't great, but saying "screw you" to anyone who wants to improve the system for everyone is

sounds like you had a tough or not very easy start to life, which isn't great, but saying "screw you" to anyone who wants to improve the system for everyone is just promoting something bad because you had to and to suggest that grad students don't have "actual grit and work" is stupid, they work just as hard and long - if not more - then any other person with a "normal job". and they know well that they won't be getting paid great, so their only real motivation to be doing their work - is because they love their work all else be damned, so trying to paint them as money grabbing leeches or something when they want a livable wage is just stupid