author here: Not sure where you get this from. I came to Canada in 1999 and my parents worked at a best buy and a mattress store for 10 years. And we rented s

author here: Not sure where you get this from. I came to Canada in 1999 and my parents worked at a best buy and a mattress store for 10 years. And we rented someone's basement for the first 6 years. I moved out of my parents when I was 17, I paid for my college tuition myself through tech internships. After graduating college I had saved about ~1000$ and moved to SF to work my tech job. I asked for my first pay cheque in advanced before I flew to the US so I could pay the deposit. --- Its weird you say "members of reality" when you yourself are critiquing a phantom character in your own mind. Not sure where you are in life, but the older I get, the more I realize the woo woo self help its just the lies we tell yourselves to keep moving forward. Cause the absent of that work is even harder.