#privilege

#privilege

I worked at a school; some kids got free lunch, and some bought their lunches. The kids were going on an all-day field trip. Just before we called the classes down to get on the buses, I asked one of the organizers (who worked in the district) where the lunches were. (I was expecting at least a few brown bagged lunches for the kids who get free lunch or the kids who always buy lunches). The organizer said that the kids should already have their lunchboxes in their backpacks.

What would it be like to be him? Him, John F. Kennedy, Jr., our American Prince... endowed not only with a privileged birthright but... the physical stature to match?

I understand [with] Japan it's because I was American and nobody would fuck with me, but I really was trafficked by the Yakuza out of Portland with all these other girls from Idaho, Utah, and Washington State.

Adisturbing number of the oligarchs responsible for the mess we're in are not very smart. I realize that this seems like a minor complaint when so many of them are also evil, incompetent, and causing enormous amounts of human suffering. (Though perhaps it's better that they're dimly lit, because who knows how much worse things would be if they were truly evil geniuses?)

People with very high expectations have very low resilienceand unfortunately, resilience matters in success, Huang said during an interview with the Stanford Graduate School of Business. One of my great advantages is that I have very low expectations. Indeed, as the billionaire boss pointed out, those at elite institutions like Stanford probably have higher expectations for their future than your average Joe.

And I'm not just talking about random life events, like winning the lottery, I'm thinking about luck in the broader sense of the circumstances into which each of us is born. It took me a while to realise that my journey through life has been eased by several tailwinds. I have had the incredible luck of being born in the UK, in a peaceful period of history.

As Parker-Bowles puts it, devastatingly: Look, we have Belvoir and Bottlegreen. But they use concentrates. Why can't we make a really high-end British cordial? Mind. Blown. You didn't know about this. You didn't know about the grail of the not-from-concentrate cordial. You didn't know what we have here is a genuine seeker, product of a youth spent poring over the pans, face smeared with tears, bilberry reduction, seeking something that goes beyond cordial and into, well, art.

Poor Little Rich Girl is a one-woman comedy show by Upper East Side native Tori Piskin, who spent her youth hiding her designer clothes and pretending her credit card didn't have her dad's name on it. As a fly on the wall to New York's elite, she shares ridiculous stories from her Manhattan childhood, revealing the world of privilege she was born into.

I know there are people who'll say I only got this role because of who my dad is. They're not seeing that I've had ten years of acting classes, put on [high] school plays every week, worked on my characters for hours on end or the hundreds of rejected auditions I've been on.

It's impossible to ignore the tension in the air right now. Acts of political violence, heated debates, and deepening division leave many of us feeling bewildered, frustrated, and even helpless. In times like these, our instinct can be to double down on our perspective or point fingers outward. One of the drivers of polarization is the sense that acknowledging another group's struggles somehow diminishes our own. Humility, if we are open to it, offers another path.

"You'd think, wouldn't you, that if you were immensely powerful and rich like Elon Musk and all these other tech bros and members of that podcast community," the former politico told The Guardian, "that you'd reflect on your good fortune compared with most other people?"

Membership in groups such as white, male, straight, and Christian confers advantages that increase the odds of achieving power in the United States.

The heightened salience of identity in modern political discourse suggests an internalisation of the neoliberal view, reducing identities to consumer preferences.

Patricia Campbell Hearst, born into privilege, was targeted by a violent militant organization, leading to a kidnapping saga that shook America.

I recognize the place of privilege I come from given who my family is, and while I'm grateful for opportunities, I want to earn my success.

"Hope Walz claimed that running for sport is a political act that's only for the privileged, taught to her by her father, Governor Tim Walz."