Look at your parent’s hands sometime. The calluses are receipts for things you never had to buy.

Most of what you were handed was paid for somewhere you were not looking. Work leaves marks on a body, and those marks are the closest thing to a record of a cost nobody itemised for you. You did not see the shifts or the lifting, so it is easy to treat the result as simply how things are. Noticing the physical evidence is one way to correct that.

Sit near whoever raised you this week and actually look at their hands. Ask what job gave them that particular mark. The answer usually arrives with a story they have been waiting to be asked for.