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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of Ivy League students come from relatively wealthy families, which means they’re able to take on meaningful work with lower salaries. Or they’ve learned that money isn’t the only measure of success![/quote]

They work at NPR and will inherit millions.

Sincerely,
Their state school coworker[/quote]
If NPR wants to live their values, offset increasing inequality and support social mobility, they should hire state school graduates who are qualified and come from honors and academic scholarship programs. This is what my organization does. NPR staff should be advocating for this along with their EDI initiatives, unless it makes them too uncomfortable given their own backgrounds.[/quote]

Most of those graduates cannot survive on the salary at NPR. Target pays better for entry level. [/quote]

+1 seriously PP, do you not understand that plenty of very bright state school grads would love to work at NPR or at an art gallery, but they can't afford to? Whereas kids from rich families can work a nonprofit job and still inherit millions; their low-paying but "meaningful" career path has no financial relevancy in their lives, and their kids will be attending summer camp, getting dental work, traveling to europe, etc etc., no matter what. That's not true for middle class people. [/quote]

Plenty of us not rich people can and do afford to have NPR type-jobs. I am married to a journalist and am in public health. We have no wealthy family, and we've paid back our grad school loans with our salaries. What you are missing is you can't become wealthy working at NPR (or its like) if you don't start out wealthy. But if you decide to live within your means it all works out fine. It is pretty weird to say you can't survive on a salary that is solidly middle class. Maybe you can't, but those of us who grew up middle class and have no expectation of being wealthy sure can.[/quote]

How did you buy a house on your income? [/quote]

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