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Single mother in Chicago working at a state college? Straight up middle class. I don't buy the premise that you need to be poor to have an appreciation of risk
by nikcub 13y ago
Single mother in Chicago working at a state college? Straight up middle class.
I don't buy the premise that you need to be poor to have an appreciation of risk. Risk isn't just financial, there is also career and personal risk. Think of all the well-off kids who didn't follow in their fathers footsteps or what their parents wanted and pursued their own dreams, at the risk of being alienated, disowned etc.
- ItendToDisagree 13y agoHe wasn't at risk of being disowned. He also wasn't at risk of going hungry. He may have been at risk of having to work a boring 9-5 for the rest of his life. But that's a risk shared by so much of the public that it seems pretty minimal.