I did the math. Adjusting for inflation, if I made my parents money and kept my same expenses I would have saved about 40k a year average from 16-29. If I was paying a mortgage instead of rent I’d have probably about 150,000 in equity in a home that conservatively would have at least doubled in value since I bought it. If I put every dollar I would have made on their pay scale but did t into the markets and lived exactly the same life otherwise, I can’t think of a way I wouldn’t already be a millionaire. Most of us would be. This is how bad they screwed us.