That's great you've been successful. However, since your story doesn't mirror the majority of your peers, consider yourself an outlier.
What can you do to help more people become as financially successful as you are?
What can you do to help more people become as financially successful as you are?
In the '90s, I could go out for a whole weekend and come home and check my answering machine and nobody would be offended, because that was the norm.
I could still opt to live like that now, but the repercussions would be much more severe, because the competitive landscape has shifted.
Even though people of relatively recent generations were more successful on average, that didn't give them access to many of the services and capabilities that people just take for granted today. Pick your year--1970, 1980, 1990. Plop many people down into those years and they would not be happy even if they had a good job and could buy a nice suburban house. (Middle class people were generally leaving the cities during that period.)