It’s also that the most ‘capable’ person for a job has more often than not had privileges that made them capable. College costs money and not just in tuition but also in travel fees (if you have to go to another campus for a course), textbooks, and the “cost of opportunity” of not integrating the workforce yet too, which means your parents need to be able to support you for the years you’ll be in college.
It’s no surprise that social mobility doesn’t exist in capitalism and children of wealthy/ier parents will themselves find high-paying jobs. This comic is old but illustrates it, https://digitalsynopsis.com/inspiration/privileged-kids-on-a-plate-pencilsword-toby-morris/, this is basic sociology that even liberals recognize. One thing it doesn’t touch on that artisanal intelligence did is that the promise of meritocracy makes one feel like they have to grind to make it out of the race while not realizing that they were never going to cross the finish line. And ‘the grind’ often means working for unlivable wages and accepting undignified work.
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It’s also that the most ‘capable’ person for a job has more often than not had privileges that made them capable. College costs money and not just in tuition but also in travel fees (if you have to go to another campus for a course), textbooks, and the “cost of opportunity” of not integrating the workforce yet too, which means your parents need to be able to support you for the years you’ll be in college.
It’s no surprise that social mobility doesn’t exist in capitalism and children of wealthy/ier parents will themselves find high-paying jobs. This comic is old but illustrates it, https://digitalsynopsis.com/inspiration/privileged-kids-on-a-plate-pencilsword-toby-morris/, this is basic sociology that even liberals recognize. One thing it doesn’t touch on that artisanal intelligence did is that the promise of meritocracy makes one feel like they have to grind to make it out of the race while not realizing that they were never going to cross the finish line. And ‘the grind’ often means working for unlivable wages and accepting undignified work.