“Mike” described above - was my elderly father, except that both he and his mother never did drugs and his mother pushed him to stay in school and become educated.
so with the right choices and morality, even after a difficult start, they built a middle-class family, now with many children and grandchildren in America’s middle and upper classes.
Therefore, the only privilege that exists is being exposed to proper values and behavior. And that’s potentially FREE for everyone. its also, ironically, what America’s socialists seek to destroy.
ALOT of us grew up in humble circumstances, yet made the right choices. No one give my parents a dime and I worked part time thru college.
But today I’m “privileged” so they say. My kids would have to get a merit based scholarship and their merit would have to be sizeable.
My experience in the real world is the kids who are getting the BS scholarships et al are the kids of mostly professional, just so some President, Dean or Admissions Office and fill “diversity’ quotas.
BINGO. There but for the grace of GOD go I or my boys. We had a stable family, only bad habit parents had were cigarettes. Dad worked as a Boilermaker after his Army stint Airborne under Mac Arthur in WW2. Mom was a stay at home mom. Neither had more than a 8th grade education. With 4 kids there was no extra money on a Steel workers pay even with some OT. We lived on credit, and from paycheck to paycheck. Ins was not what it was today. Mom had to bad Miscarriages. WE survived. None of us 4 were able to go to college. I’m the only one who finished HS. My 3 boys never went to college. But they work their butts off. 1 has been in food management for over 20 yrs, the other wields steel cabinets not the best paying jobs, but they don’t do dope, take care of the 1 grand child each.
BTW my dad’s was a Abusive old World Italian Naturalized US Citizens, who taught his 8 kids to Love America and be Americans. Dad never did more than use his hand on a butt a few times when we got in to dangerous mischief. Mostly he made us go to our rooms for the rest of the day after homework and supper for several days.
It can be done where there is a will.
Succinct, perceptive, factual. In other words, your advice will be buried for at least a long time to come. Not enough victims=not enough stolen money tossed around.