So as you have all this empathy for people who struggle, please feel free to donate me the €4 I ask for. I have lived a life of intense struggle, and now at the age of 72, am going on my very first vacation, and the only reason I can afford it is because the person I am going to stay with is someone I helped a long time ago and she has opened her home to me.

I've never had the privileges you lot speak about. Every single day of my life for the past 40 years has been one lived in fear that I won't be able to pay the rent and get kicked out. I have been frightened that I will never keep my job because people have abused me and bullied me for a lifetime. I have no savings, no capital, and if my daughter and I get kicked out of here, we have no place to go.

You, of course, wouldn't know what that feels like. You say you have all this empathy and deep feelings for people like me, but you wouldn't recognize us if we were right in front of your face

So please refrain from lecturing me on hardship. I'd appreciate your patronage.