Hmm, maybe I’m a “troubled country” offspring but my generation almost universally started from scratch or close to it. The only thing my parents managed to do

Hmm, maybe I’m a “troubled country” offspring but my generation almost universally started from scratch or close to it. The only thing my parents managed to do for me was get me a PC, at the expense of things like clothes or even food - turned out quite the return on investment for me and them. But the point is that a lot of people around me started with very little and I’ve not seen much of a difference in their fortunes, sure having stability and initial capital gives you more options, but the quality of life - the elusive “happiness” was mostly tangential to that.