Well it sure does for the kind of people who go to Stanford and emerge with no debt. For everyone else circumstance is a heavy weight.
>Even if you earned say... $25k/yr ($12 per hour) for your entire life, you can afford to save $5.5k per year.
...How many people over the age of 30 do you actually know making $12/hr? If you have kids on that kind of wage there is absolutely no room for any saving.
