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Dear Barefoot: My parents raised me in a religious cult, took every cent I earned for over a decade and coerced us into paying off their five personal investment properties. 

The finance guru revealed it was the number one question he was asked by worried Australians prompting him to share a very blunt response in his advice column.

The Barefoot Investor, Scott Pape, has hit back at a critic who slammed him for being a joke, ridiculing the readers bizarre ideas and poor spelling in his weekly newsletter.

Scott Pape, better known as the Barefoot Investor, is urging Australians to switch their superannuation mix with retirees now copping the steepest cost of living rise in more than a decade.