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> ...when has it ever been socially cool to literally be rural "trailer trash" in America? You're the one calling it trailer trash. Even educated poor people o
by staunch 11y ago
> ...when has it ever been socially cool to literally be rural "trailer trash" in America?
You're the one calling it trailer trash. Even educated poor people often speak in a more genuine and direct way than elite people do. It may sound funny to a fancy person but that doesn't make it trash.
> ...no one checks your papers at the door.
Yes, they do. Every job, startup accelerator, and VC checks your background. Elite VCs fund elite founders. Elite founders hire elite managers. Elite managers hire poor people to do the actual work. The order is maintained.
- morgante 11y ago> Every job, startup accelerator, and VC checks your background. They check your education, not your family background. Nobody has a clue whether your parents were middle class or lower income.
- dota_fanatic 11y agoThat may be somewhat true if education was completely or even somewhat disconnected from familial background... are you completely ignoring all the discussion going on here? One major point is that without that background, your resume isn't ever even going to be on the hiring person's desk, much less under their attention.
- morgante 11y agoI'm not saying that education is complete disconnected from familial background. But the latter isn't solely a determinant of the former. Ricky, for example, has a Stanford degree. No hiring manager will know about his low family income. Pretending that VCs/managers somehow have an invisible ball to peer into an applicant's entire life is completely disingenuous.