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But no one should feel secure in life. Everything can go away in the blink of an eye, no matter how carefully we plan and how intently we focus on making the right decisions.

I understand exactly what you're saying. From personal experience.

I apologize for the mistaken gender. And for anybody who took you to task in your time of need.

All I'm saying is that, after being here for 15 years, I've seen relatively little of the criticism you've experienced. Some misdirected animus, yes. But the vast proportion has been aimed at those who won't work. Or have an unrealistic evaluation of their work's worth.

And, as I said, many of the folks on this website probably qualify as "working poor" -- but don't think of themselves that way. Or they are intimately acquainted with hard times themselves as, evidently, we both are.

I generalize, of course, without benefit of reviewing the adverse comments that were directed at you specifically -- which were no doubt painful.