People nowadays are desperate to remove merit from people who deserve it, seems like they are so bitter that they are unable of celebrating others.

It goes like "Person pulled themselves out of a difficult situation and made something of themselves".

People these days: Yeah, but it helps to "insert any reason as to why they should not have merit".

Just celebrate other people's successes.

Not everyone needs to come from absolute 0, $0 in their bank account, 0 friends and 0 family, from a country with 0 opportunity to be celebrated.

Just pull a lesson out of the story if anything and apply it to your situation, rather than engaging on this bullshit spiral of negativity that's going on these days.

Well done to this fucking dude.

The only reason why cutting them off is not an option is because you don't want to have the tough talk.