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Working Class Families Are Teaching You Self-Responsibility
There's this really great study by a sociologist named Jessica Calarco who was doing research in a middle school. She found that the kids from middle class families were seven times more likely to ask for help or any of those other things it's huge and so then she looked at who were the teachers saying yes to and the teachers are trying to say yes to everybody but they're not looking at who wasn't asking. So even in a family definitely in a company in any role where you have something that people are coming and asking you for we need to step back and think about who didn't step forward to ask maybe they didn't feel comfortable because people with more privilege are more comfortable asking