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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can be born privileged and also work hard. The two are not mutually exclusive [/quote]

Of course. You can also be born NOT privileged, work even harder, and wind up with a lot less.

That's why it's obnoxious for people to emphasize their hard work as the reason for their success and glide right over an inheritance or a job they got through nepotism or even the gift of graduating from school debt free due to parent contributions or being able to live at home. Hard work alone is not enough for most people.[/quote]

When they say that they are probably comparing themselves to their peers, folks who started off with similar level of privilege. Like, I’ve never thought about it before this post, but I did better than many of my HS classmates and the children of my parents’ friends.[/quote]

Being able to live at home is a privilege? I thought being able to afford to live away from home was the privilege. Silly me. [/quote]

Yeah, having a good relationship with your parents and them having the space to house you so that you can save money, pay off student loans, etc without paying rent is absolutely 100% a privilege. [/quote]

I mean having that safety net is higher than people in poverty but it's not a privilege that people born on third would view as a privilege. It's more like a perk. [/quote]

that's literally the point.  It is a privilege to know that you have a safety net for so many things in life[/quote]

yes but like someone said there are levels to it. The people I work with are UMC kids that went to private schools, moved into an apartment (haven't lived with their parents since like 18), eventually got married, had their parents help them buy a home etc. sure it is a privilege to live at home but that is not the kind of "third base" the OP is talking about. Living at home to pay off loans or save is like basic middle class privilege. Even poor people live in multi generational households.[/quote]

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