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Lemmy really is a bubble... Comments like this are really alienating me sometimes. Growing up not in abject poverty but also not financially secure does change my outlook on many things.
The multiple comments of beeing surprised that someone can find moderately expensive chocolate (which in itself is mostly a luxury good) luxurious really feels to me like people making fun of socioeconomically worse of others. It is probably not meant that way tho.
In my experience even really rich people don't think of themselves as rich. There is always someone with more wealth in their circle. What really separates the haves from the have nots is the things they take for granted. This can create friction with the people that either can afford these things but don't take them for granted or even worse the people that cannot afford it in the first place.
I do not have a solution for this but it affects almost everyone as there almost surely is someone less well of then them. Who'll think of one as rich.