Ah yes the good old, being poor is a character flaw. There's plenty of evidence that being poor is primarily due to nothing else but lack of money. But the rich/middle class love to feel superior by saying people are poor because of bad financial decisions.

He didn't say it was a character flaw. It's just context in which to put their other financial decisions.

The financial risk analysis of college is very different when you're poor.

I'm not saying it's a character flaw. I'm saying they held onto a job that wasn't optimal based on their other available options. They could have been middle class had they chosen another job. Down right negligent honestly since they clearly had no healthcare that entire time. One illness could have thrown them on the street.

> They could have been middle class had they chosen another job.

What the effing f? So they "chose" to be poor?

Actually.... Yea. In this case that's exactly what's happening. It's like if you got a job at McDonald's working minimum wage when you were 16 but then you never moved on.

When customizing their character, they should have chosen a different profession than "garbage picker" on the selection screen. To be honest, I really don't know how they found it - I didn't see garbage picker on the menu at all, and I don't even know any garbage pickers.

They funded their kid through school, they didn’t do that badly.

Yeah we don't know if the parents even ever tried to find better jobs, or if they just found the one job and kept at it.