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The Parent Trap

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Is There a Class Difference?

I just want to say i really do agree with you there, but there's an overly deterministic way of talking about it that strips people of their agency. I talk about the skills that you wind up with through the opportunities that your parents largely make available to you in childhood. But most of us don't have a five million dollar bank account trust fund to help us take risks. The same thing is happening. It's just invisible. For regular upper middle class kids. Our skill portfolio comes from the same kinds of parental advantages that drive the trust fund. And these things are both true at the same time, and they inter act in very complicated ways.t have to be addressed in a

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