Real Person

A person who actually does things society asks of them. Someone who has a job, owns property, or has a pension plan. It doesn't need to encompass one of those, or necessarily any, but they do need to embody some concrete "real" ideal.

Unlike me, a grad student living off loans, my friend has a grown up job and is a real person.

or

I did my own taxes for the first time this year, I'm finally a real person.

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