We all know that people with high-income parents have an advantage over people with low-income parents. But what I just realized is that there’s *also* a practical difference between people who could ever inherit or borrow money from a grandparent or cousin, and people who can’t.
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There’s this awful assumption that if you ever actually admit “The Holocaust/the Cultural Revolution/slavery/etc really screwed over my family, in ways that put me at a disadvantage even today” that you’re asking for pity or charity, which self-respecting people recoil at.
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You can keep your sense of autonomous agency, and keep your gratitude for all the ways you are lucky, and *still* acknowledge that someone committed injustice against you. Even if you’re fine and aren’t fishing for sympathy or craving revenge.
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0: Darwinian survival in collapsed civilization 1: low education service/small business out of ashes, send kid to college 2: educated middle class professional bourgie 3: minke entrepreneurial success 4: artist snowflake trustee Marxist who contributes to collapse of civilization
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Theory: your parents will understand & encourage their kids moving to the next stage but not skipping a stage. Parents in “Darwinian survival” circumstances will be bewildered by their kid wanting to go to college (see: Winter’s Bone)
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