Also, I found this link to be interesting. The narrative of "poor people are poor because they have stupid habits" is something that can be seen to counter the "lacking privilege" angle, but my take on it is that upper class habits are the upper-class privilege. It's a feedback loop that keeps rich people rich and keeps poor people poor. The mistake is believing that you can freely choose your habits through a simple act of will, when in fact most of them are a matter of environmental feedback.
I think that class is always the most proximate driver of inequality, but when class is correlated with any other arbitrary factor "x", having "x" tends to drive you into the corresponding class, further reenforcing the correlation. When x = race the effect is particularly strong.
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Date: 2012-05-17 08:53 pm (UTC)I think that class is always the most proximate driver of inequality, but when class is correlated with any other arbitrary factor "x", having "x" tends to drive you into the corresponding class, further reenforcing the correlation. When x = race the effect is particularly strong.