Serious talk here. How do they know the authors have never struggled financially?. They don't know what the authors life was like. How can they ascertain that at the very least the authors were never poverty stricken college students. For instance I myself while coming from a well off upper middle class family have lived in extreme poverty when living on my own to the point where I could not afford food and would go to sleep hungry 3 - 4 times a week. So please tell me does the fact I had it good growing up mean that any hardships I faced were irrelevant and that I cant understand the feeling of financial destitution?. You wanna know what's fucking hilarious? you know what being too poor to afford food taught me? It taught me in order to succeed I need to bust my ass and work extra hours/longer hours so that I could not just eat but also have excess cash. It taught me that you cant rely on someone else to constantly bail you but instead you put on your big xoy pants and grow the fuck up, get a fucking job no matter how menial the work is and miserable it makes you and start working your way up to something better.