That's exactly on point. There's a guy I work with that grew up in Park City, UT. It's a ski town taken over by rich people. It's infuriating how detached he is from normal/poor people. He acts like being poor is worse than death and equally inescapable.

I tell him people join the military (i.e. the most socialized program in existence) to escape poverty and he's both disgusted and incredulous. I tell him people go to community college to afford college and get money thrown at them with grants and scholarships for being poor and he hates that they have to abase themselves with community college. (I don't think he's aware of how inexpensive it is). He doesn't know what subsidized housing is. ("How can people afford to live in Park City on minimum wage?")

Healthcare is a human right except for the unvaccinated. Education is a panacea (even for those who don't value it?)

Meanwhile I grew up in rural Oregon and my standard of whether childhood friends are doing well is if they don't do meth. They smoke pot and work at Starbucks or the Walmart distribution center and are happy as can be.

Anyways, my point is he has no clue how poor people actually live, why they're poor, and what resources are already available to them. He's only met ambitious people all his life. His dad was an Olympian and his mom is a philosophy professor.

Edit: Oh and the kicker is he resorts to some dirty emotional attacks when he knows he's wrong about his views and then projects detachment from the poor on ME, like a typical leftist. He doesn't have a clue how white trash my mom's side is and how trashy my hometown is. Nobody can comprehend that without seeing it. I'm the product of multigenerational good decisions on my dad's side and my mom knows for damn sure it only takes one generation to slide in or out of poverty.

That's exactly on point. There's a guy I work with that grew up in Park City, UT. It's a ski town taken over by rich people. It's infuriating how detached he is from normal/poor people. He acts like being poor is worse than death and equally inescapable.

I tell him people join the military (i.e. the most socialized program in existence) to escape poverty and he's both disgusted and incredulous. I tell him people go to community college to afford college and get money thrown at them with grants and scholarships for being poor and he hates that they have to abase themselves with community college. (I don't think he's aware of how inexpensive it is). He doesn't know what subsidized housing is. ("How can people afford to live in Park City on minimum wage?")

Healthcare is a human right except for the unvaccinated. Education is a panacea (even for those who don't value it?)

Meanwhile I grew up in rural Oregon and my standard of whether childhood friends are doing well is if they don't do meth. They smoke pot and work at Starbucks or the Walmart distribution center and are happy as can be.

Anyways, my point is he has no clue how poor people actually live, why they're poor, and what resources are already available to them. He's only met ambitious people all his life. His dad was an Olympian and his mom is a philosophy professor.

That's exactly on point. There's a guy I work with that grew up in Park City, UT. It's a ski town taken over by rich people. It's infuriating how detached he is from normal/poor people. He acts like being poor is worse than death and equally inescapable.

I tell him people join the military (i.e. the most socialized program in existence) to escape poverty and he's both disgusted and incredulous. I tell him people go to community college to afford college and get money thrown at them with grants and scholarships for being poor and he hates that they have to abase themselves with community college. (I don't think he's aware of how inexpensive it is). He doesn't know what subsidized housing is. (How can people afford to live in Park City on minimum wage?)

Healthcare is a human right except for the unvaccinated. Education is a panacea (even for those who don't value it?)

Meanwhile I grew up in rural Oregon and my standard of whether childhood friends are doing well is if they don't do meth. They smoke pot and work at Starbucks or the Walmart distribution center and are happy as can be.

Anyways, my point is he has no clue how poor people actually live, why they're poor, and what resources are already available to them. He's only met ambitious people all his life. His dad was an Olympian and his mom is a philosophy professor.