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How to handle guilt about generational progress

I cannot stop thinking about how my great-grandfather was a sharecropper and now I work in tech and I feel guilty about having it easier but also angry that I still struggle with money and nothing feels real anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Rapid social mobility across generations creates disconnection from both ancestral struggles and present-moment experience.

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