Simplest Explanation of Privilege
This comic has picked one scenario which may or may not be the rule. I do not think it is quite so simple as this scenario demonstrates.
This scenario does not account for the millions of immgrants coming to America with only their clothes on their backs and desire in their hearts. They worked hard, made life better for them and their children, and passed along the secret to making life better.
That secret is no real secret at all. Get educated. Get employed, anywhere. Get married. Have children. Do not commit crime. Do those things in that order and your likelihood of living in poverty is about 3%. Do those things out of order, skip one, or commit crimes, and live in poverty about 80% of the time.
Even if you're born into a family in poverty, you can learn this lesson, if only by observing your community, but certainly by going to school every day and paying attention. Its not about privilege, its about setting expectations.
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