Struggling to Serve at the Nation’s Richest University

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/24/opinion/struggling-to-serve-at-the-nations-richest-university.html

by balls187 • 10 years ago

2 4 10 years ago

Going broke working at Harvard more like it, could you live on $12/hr in Baltimore with kids? I know I wouldn't be able to make it work.

balls1872• 10 years ago

I'd love to know more about the choices that lead to the authors situation.

How do you go from being a child living in the projects and on welfare., to an adult working a job that pays very little, while having to support two children?

webscaleizfun2• 10 years ago

Seems pretty straightforward to me, having seen this occur quite often. Not much you can do to break through to the upper echelons in the US today if you start in the lower economic class, better to go to a country with higher social mobility.

balls1872• 10 years ago

better to go to a country with higher social mobility.

A country such as?

I started lower-middle class, and am now in the very top of the upper middle class income bracket, with a realistic shot of breaking into the Upper Class.

America has social mobility but if you follow a few specific paths. Deviate from that path, and it's hard to move up.

That's why I am curious about the authors life story. When I was in high school, I worked on getting good grades and getting into college, while many of my other peers fucked around. Most of them never really understood the consequences of their actions.

Struggling to Serve at the Nation’s Richest University

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