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I went to school in Seattle and had a Singaporean trustfund baby friend who always reiterated “everyone deserves to get a masters degree”. She would constantly

I went to school in Seattle and had a Singaporean trustfund baby friend who always reiterated “everyone deserves to get a masters degree”. She would constantly fly to different cities every weekend on her own (parent’s) dime to volunteer for this non profit org called AIESEC. “Everyone deserves to travel.” To this day, I still don’t understand what this org does and it sounded like a cult or some kind of pyramid scheme. If you can’t explain what your org does in less than a paragraphs… it’s fluff to me. One concrete thing this student ran org did was help other students get internships, and yet ironically my friend never secured one herself. After her parents spent half a million on her tuition, room and board, she ended up going to a 3rd world country to become a tech recruiter making a fraction of US minimum wage. Now, instead of “everyone should get a masters degree”, it’s “everyone should contribute to the developing world”.

jdlshore 5y ago
I'm having trouble understanding the point of your story. It sounds like you don't think very highly of this friend. Does she know you talk about her this way?
- alephnan 5y ago
  > Does she know you talk about her this way? Yes, I make it a very clear to remind people of their entitlement and privilege > It sounds like you don't think very highly of this friend. I don’t . I should have stated it was a college friend, now strangers. > I'm having trouble understanding the point of your story. Entitled “posh” people who got into these academic institutions because they’ve been told their whole life they are special. Completely unaware of their privilege, walking about lecturing and mansplaining to people about the virtuous route of academia / non-profit. Perpetual academia and not entering the real world, paying your own rent, paying for your own tuition, is a privilege
  - redis_mlc 5y ago
    Why do you feel it's your job to point out people's privilege or entitlement? Who asked you to judge them? It's none of your business.

jdlshore 5y ago

I'm having trouble understanding the point of your story. It sounds like you don't think very highly of this friend. Does she know you talk about her this way?

alephnan 5y ago
> Does she know you talk about her this way? Yes, I make it a very clear to remind people of their entitlement and privilege > It sounds like you don't think very highly of this friend. I don’t . I should have stated it was a college friend, now strangers. > I'm having trouble understanding the point of your story. Entitled “posh” people who got into these academic institutions because they’ve been told their whole life they are special. Completely unaware of their privilege, walking about lecturing and mansplaining to people about the virtuous route of academia / non-profit. Perpetual academia and not entering the real world, paying your own rent, paying for your own tuition, is a privilege
- redis_mlc 5y ago
  Why do you feel it's your job to point out people's privilege or entitlement? Who asked you to judge them? It's none of your business.