: : Sorry sam....not over priviledged, just made sacrifices, relied on the resources, friends, family, school teachers, friends parents for advice, help, and encouragement to make a difference in my life for me.....how novel eh?
I'm sorry for being presumptuous, Kevin, I should never presume anything about you on the basis of an e-mail conversation. Nevertheless your reply is beside the point. I've worked with countless children who don't have your "resources" to work with. They don't have parents to rely upon, resources to use, friends to help them. Which by their standards makes you "privileged." I've explained this privilege previously.
It's also true that working hard has no relationship to privilege or lack of privilege. Most of my privileged fellow graduates of the elite high school I went to, they're working very hard as doctors and lawyers. So are the women of Malaysia described in Aihwa Ong's SPIRITS OF RESISTANCE AND CAPITALIST DISCIPLINE, who work so hard for multinationals that they are "possessed by spirits" on the factory shopfloors. CEOs, for instance, work extremely hard, yet are nevertheless generally more privileged than those thousands of employees whose jobs they downsize. Jeremy Rifkin, on his most recent speaking tour in favor of a reduced workweek for everyone, has been able to impress a major point upon the CEOs he's spoken to when he's asked them what their schedules are, and if they themselves are overworked.
