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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Life is not fair.  Trying to fix all unfairness is impossible.

I think going for major biases like race equality and gender equality is fine, but trying to fight SEC inequality is just not going to work.

Yeah, some of us were born into well off families, but it may be more of a disadvantage because it doesn’t help develop grit.

Being born into an emotionally healthy family is even more of a privilege, but no one considers that in college applications.

There is no college application lines for dysfunctional family, neurotic mother, alcoholic father, neglecting parenting, illness, traumas, etc.[/quote]

Being born into a well off family may be a disadvantage?   I have read a lot of bull crap on DCUm but that could be the prizewinner.[/quote]
Yep a loving household and supportive parents with HHI of 80-90k will probably be better for a kid than alcoholic and workaholic dad and stepmom who doesn’t care with HHI of 500k. You just don’t know. Everyone seems to know what everyone else is going through though and can neatly put people in privilege boxes without knowing their story. Sad.[/quote]

Alcoholism, loving...these things are not determined by HHI.   Alcoholism can strike at any income level[/quote]
point is everyone has a story or a struggle. [/quote]

Very true.  And one group has a lot more resources available to throw at these struggles than other groups [/quote]
well in the example there are two incomes that describe this one group vs the other relationship, but in reality its a sliding scale of resources across tons of people in the middle above and below. People attempting to box in folks as privileged arbitrarily without knowing  them is not well-received.[/quote]

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