What makes them a pain to deal with?

I work with ultra-privileged people who by all accounts are “well adjusted” and I find them harder to deal with than people I grew up with from home. Many of them have no history of and don’t understand trauma, and as a result they’re unempathetic to what the literal majority of people experience.

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> I work with ultra-privileged people who by all accounts are “well adjusted” and I find them harder to deal with than people I grew up with from home. Many of them have no history of and don’t understand trauma, and as a result they’re unempathetic to what the literal majority of people experience.

Financial issues aren't the only trauma in life, by a long shot. Plenty of people in that group have trauma. What makes people unempathetic is often that they don't come to grips with their own trauma; they deny it and thus deny it for others - if it's too painful to admit to yourself, think how dangerous other people's trauma could be!

I think you’re underestimating how much trauma correlates with wealth in America.

It’s not just the trauma of being poor, it’s trauma of growing up in a dangerous area, or of your parents getting divorced, or of getting sexually assaulted, or of young friends or family members dying. All of which get far more likely the poorer you are.

Obviously I’m not saying that there aren’t wealthy, Ivy League educated people with trauma. But if we’re looking at the stats it’s not even close.

It's not a competition for who has more trauma, but I generally agree. If you look at my other posts in this thread, I am generally trying to explain what you said well here.