This comment was a gut punch. I came from a family that was lower middle class when I was young, then upper middle class, then back to lower class before I gra

This comment was a gut punch. I came from a family that was lower middle class when I was young, then upper middle class, then back to lower class before I graduated college. And I graduated into the 2008 recession. When I got my current job back in 2017, I finally felt what I though was economic optimism - a sense that the future would be better than the past. What a feeling. This phrase is over-used, but it did feel like a weight off my shoulders. Then COVID happened...