Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is

[HiPointDem]

213. As a white working class person who's never broken the law, never gone through a bankruptcy, but

always lived like a poor student even when I made a middle-class income, saving half or more of my income and using credit only to buy a house, never alcoholic or drug-addicted, and put herself through college with honors and without debt, yet was thrown off-track by family illness and divorce, I haven't found it easy to pick up and resume my "privileged" life course.

Which was never that privileged to begin with, just the average life of a person from my class background coming to age in the era I did, when the children/daughters of the blue-collar work-force were entering college and the white-collar world in historically large numbers *due to nation-wide social and economic changes,* not personal merit).

Nor have I ever felt that if people didn't "make it," it was because they were lazy. Because I always recognized that the economy was structured hierarchically by design, to ensure that some didn't make it -- as the existence of an indigent fraction and a "barely scraping by" fraction are essential features of capitalism to the same degree that the existence of a "fabulously wealthy and powerful" and "well-paid operatives of the powerful and wealthy" are.