I GREW UP POOR IN MISSISSIPPI HOW DAAAAARE YOU I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO BE POOR now where's that porsche
Lowkey sperging, but this is actually one of the most unacceptable things Wu claims.
Poverty in the flyover states, especially the south? It's fucking atrocious. The suicide rate triples, there are no jobs because the manufacturing industry collapsed, the towns are usually too small to have any real relief programs and the culture shames people to the point their pride wouldn't accept it even if such programs existed.
Wu did not grow up poor in Mississippi. He grew up to fucking millionaires who indulged his every whim and handed him more money than any 5 people in this thread collectively see in a year to start an animation studio.
There is absolutely
no goddamn excuse as to why he shouldn't be a fucking tycoon right now. Give that kind of opportunity to any asshole who's worked his ass off having to live paycheck to paycheck, and he'll build you a fucking empire. There are a million broke, hardworking public university grads right now who could fundamentally change the world with that kind of startup capital.
Wu had everything, literally everything a human being could ever need to be successful. Most people can get a doctorate in the time it took him to flunk out of undergrad, and they take debt every step of the way and still find a way to claw themselves to success.
It's not that he doesn't know poverty. It's that his entire life has been spent so many lightyears from "desperate" that he can't understand the fundamental concept of it.
I'm not claiming I've ever known poverty, but I know people who grew up with an eighth of what I had who've gone on to do incredible things by the sheer weight of their brass fucking balls.
Fuck her and everything she's ever done, and fuck her for claiming that she had it rough. Shit's just disrespectful.