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>Where you start matters, but so do the choices you make. Of course it does...but the single largest predictor of future income is parental income. >I would a

>Where you start matters, but so do the choices you make. Of course it does...but the single largest predictor of future income is parental income. >I would argue the exact opposite. I would argue that with the rise of socialist tendencies among millennials, and the hyper fixation on gender, racial, and economic privilege, there is almost an outright rejection of the existence of merit at all. I think that the position is so extreme, that many millennials believe the output of an individual belonging to a group they consider to be universally privileged is almost entirely the consequence of their group's privileges or disadvantages. And I would argue that this is the right-wing clickbait version of millennials. Not that people like this don't exist, but that their size and impact has been vastly exaggerated. >People don't have a problem acknowledging privilege. That doesn't match my personal experience with people.

ralusek 8y ago
Most people don't have a problem acknowledging individual privileges they have been afforded. People object to broad assumptions made on their behalf by using their race or gender as a proxy.
- learc83 8y ago
  >Most people don't have a problem acknowledging individual privileges they have been afforded. People object to broad assumptions made on their behalf by using their race or gender as a proxy. You're painting one side as, "they don't have a problem with acknowledging privilege", and the other side as "they don't even acknowledge merit". For every millennial who believes that racial privilege is 100% responsible for success, I'll show you a baby boomer who believes that they are 100% responsible for their own success and have had zero privileges. You'll find some of them arguing here right now. I've argued with many of them in the past. In fact surveys show that there is a large chunk of the population that believes that being a white male makes it harder to succeed. >People object to broad assumptions made on their behalf by using their race or gender as a proxy. Privilege isn't about absolute life difficulty scale. Of course there is a given white man who has had a harder time than a given black woman. Privilege is about relative advantages. The average white man would be less successful if he were a black woman--all else being equal.
es7 8y ago
> the single largest predictor of future income is parental income. I have seen this claim made many many times, but it isn't clear cut. Quite a bit of research points in other directions also (like intelligence), for example: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120329142035.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120329142035.h...

ralusek 8y ago

Most people don't have a problem acknowledging individual privileges they have been afforded. People object to broad assumptions made on their behalf by using their race or gender as a proxy.

learc83 8y ago
>Most people don't have a problem acknowledging individual privileges they have been afforded. People object to broad assumptions made on their behalf by using their race or gender as a proxy. You're painting one side as, "they don't have a problem with acknowledging privilege", and the other side as "they don't even acknowledge merit". For every millennial who believes that racial privilege is 100% responsible for success, I'll show you a baby boomer who believes that they are 100% responsible for their own success and have had zero privileges. You'll find some of them arguing here right now. I've argued with many of them in the past. In fact surveys show that there is a large chunk of the population that believes that being a white male makes it harder to succeed. >People object to broad assumptions made on their behalf by using their race or gender as a proxy. Privilege isn't about absolute life difficulty scale. Of course there is a given white man who has had a harder time than a given black woman. Privilege is about relative advantages. The average white man would be less successful if he were a black woman--all else being equal.

es7 8y ago

> the single largest predictor of future income is parental income. I have seen this claim made many many times, but it isn't clear cut. Quite a bit of research points in other directions also (like intelligence), for example: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120329142035.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120329142035.h...