At best, it was somebody who doesn't know what it's like to know that your partner and kid(s) are depending on you to make things work - somebody who doesn't know what it's like to see your disposal income cease to exist and be basically happy about that fact.
At best, it was somebody who doesn't understand that 'choosing between something for yourself and savings' and 'choosing between something for your family and savings' are a very, very different thing.
He's 24. He hit an emotional button. But the button is yours, and you shouldn't expect him to've been able to tell it was there; I wasn't particularly surprised by your response once I'd read it but I really didn't expect you to jump up and down on his head like that either.
He was asking whether you could support your family and, slowly, put away enough money to take a startup shot as well. The answer is apparently 'no'. You could just have said that.
