I find it fascinating how pretty much all opinion from people lower on the socioeconomic ladder gets dismissed as "they're just jealous".

In my experience, that's not often the truth of the matter.

I've spent most of my life on the lower socioeconomic ladder, I understand the copium that poor folks use to get through life that seems designed to exclude them and keep them from having nicer things.

I specifically commented further up that it's bizarre to claim that money doesn't buy happiness, because it pretty obviously does, at least up to a certain point. But I also remember times in my life where I've comforted myself by pretending that being poor was a virtue instead of just being shafted by life and circumstance and I've heard similar thoughts expressed by others.