The New Middle by Tanzina Vega
The New Middle by Tanzina Vega
What it means to succeed, honestly.
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What it means to succeed, honestly.

Being honest about how we "made it" means being transparent about our privilege or lack thereof.

How we achieve success or move up in our society is often something that we don't really want to be honest about. We have a lot of narratives in this country about meritocracies and bootstraps and, you know, fairness and all that stuff. And yet I feel like we often have trouble really being truthful about how much support we have on the one hand, and not being really truthful about how much support we don't have or how difficult it is if you don't kind of start out at a certain level.

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