>And yet, it seems as though we don't really care about hiring people from poorer backgrounds, maybe without college degrees, etc. That's why these narratives

>And yet, it seems as though we don't really care about hiring people from poorer backgrounds, maybe without college degrees, etc. That's why these narratives are so attractive to the already rich and privileged. It deflects fault/polarization from their own classism. It's not your rich parents that are the benefactors and perpetrators of socially corrosive capitalism. It's some amorphous "whiteness" that is usually a proxy for poor white people.