Thread by @WoodIandWitch, People claim wealth privilege doesn't exist but here's a list of things [...]

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WoodIandWitch

People claim wealth privilege doesn't exist but here's a list of things I grew up not realising due to it

- not everyone has spare bedrooms and studies at home
- not everyone goes on vacation yearly and not everyone goes abroad
- not everyone has books in their home
1/

- not everyone has a parent that doesn't work full time and actually spends time with you, teaching you
- not everyone has parental encouragement
- not everyone has their own computer
- not everyone can call their parents out of work and due to seniority they can just come 2/

- when people say they have no money, they mean for food not for excursions
- not everyone has space in their homes for them to get away from the bustle
- not everyone has parents who can afford to pay for extra curriculars
- not everyone has parents who are educated 3/

- not everyone grows up in houses where debates about current affairs are a regular thing
- not everyone experiences multiple cultures abroad and visits historical and educational sites as a matter of norm
- not everyone's parents have time to cook
4/

I could go on but until I was about 16, I genuinely thought everyone had all of those things. I couldn't understand what people moaned about - we all had it pretty good right?! We all had the opportunity to do well?!

This is why politics needs ppl from working class 5/

backgrounds. Even well meaning middle class people (I've always been socially liberal and cared about the environment, equal rights for minority groups etc) grow up with no understanding what life is like for those without money. Its a massive privilege and 6/

its often invisible to those who have it, particularly if they never move in other circles. I went to college and then university and met a load of different types of people and realised quickly I was "well off". Plenty never do. They go to somewhere like Oxbridge 7/

and only mix with others from their background, get a job at their dads firm and continue to associate with other predominantly middle class people.

And continue to remain ignorant about peoples struggles. 8/8

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