Wealthy People Are Sharing The Moment They Realized They Were Rich, And I'm Crying In Broke

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Lastly: “I have an uncle who has money. I was a ‘wild madman’ of a kid, and I had a lot of psychological stuff going on paired with lots of legal issues from the time I was 11 and onwards. I spent about 10 years going in and out of juvie and jails and had many court cases. Every time I was in court, I had a private lawyer. And these lawyers would fight for me. You could not violate my rights because my lawyer would make a scene about it. You could not intimidate me into a plea deal, regardless of whether I did something or was falsely accused, because my lawyers would fight right back and challenge the prosecutor to take it to trial (and the prosecutor would often give up). The reason I didn’t end up in prison, despite my various attempts, is because of the lawyers.”

“My uncle also paid a lot of money to get me into treatment programs/rehab, put me into a really good school, and got me counselors and everything I needed. He saved my life, and I turned out to be just a normal, chill person by my early 20s. I met so many people in the system who will never have any of that — people who need help and will never receive it. The system does nothing in terms of root causes of criminality; it does nothing to prevent recidivism. It does nothing. The court is nothing but a chess game on a conveyor belt, and people get screwed over every day. (I’d also like to point out that I’m not disparaging public defenders. There are many passionate public defenders who do excellent work, but their caseloads are too damn big. They cannot allocate endless time to a person’s case because they don’t have the time. Public defense needs way more funding than it gets).”

—throwawaysmetoo