Is the word rich something that you would identify with?

Unfortunately, I mean, it's a mixed thing to say yes to that.

Because on the one hand, you know, I guess you're supposed to want to be rich.

I think maybe once you are rich, you maybe start to wonder about all the negative connotations that come with that.

This is opportunity costs from death, sex, and money.

I had champagne taste on a beer budget.

A series all about class, which we think about a lot.

I feel judged about it and need to talk about more.

On paper, I was going to become a millionaire. I'm in a sale.

About a month ago, we got an email from a college student named Nishant. He's a junior at Berkeley

studying electrical engineering and computer

science. And as he gets closer to graduating, he's been thinking a lot about his family's class status.

It took me a while to realize how well off my family was and how rare that was or how lucky we are.

And that's something, I guess, kind of in hindsight, I wish I had

realized sooner.

Nishant is the oldest of three kids. He's originally from a large college town in the Midwest.

He didn't want to say exactly where. His mom works as an ophthalmologist, and his dad founded

and runs a software company. Nishant told me he first got a sense of how much money his family has when he was around

eight or nine.

I think I was at a summer camp, and it was a summer camp that had, like, there was like a day

camp option and a residential camp option.

It was at the university nearby, our home.

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