Zac Guglielmo
Blog Post 1
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Quotes

Kristof

Quote1 - “We have never been a nation of haves and have-nots"

This was the first line of kristof's piece and I strongly disagree with what he is saying. If you look at society as a whole we are essentially a country of have and have nots. Like we talk about in class all the time, institutional backlash is thethe individual cannot escape some situations. Not all situationsbut more often than not people are stuck in whatever class they'reborn into and thats a proven fact. A country of have and have nots is what we are, there are privileged wealthy people , middle class and then the lesser fortunate.Not everyone can be a have whether we like it or not but I think him saying this is ignorance and uneducated.

Quote 2- "Remember that disadvantage is less about income than environment"

I strongly agree with this quote because if you are born in a poor area and a place that there isn't much then I believe you can make a ton of money but not always escape out. I think that the burden of not being privilegd will always be on your shoulders. A wealthy black man will always be looked at differently by a racist, a female business owner won'tget a nod from a wealthy male business owner. I think the environment stands for more than just where you're raised but the work we live in and our social norms.Income can help in ways but you're usually always known for who you are , not for the number in your bank account.

Quote 3- " They grow up not in a “land of opportunity,” but in the kind of socially rigid hierarchies that our ancestors fled, the kind of society in which your outcome is largely determined by your beginning."

I agree with this also. It is relevant to the second quote because it is saying that the you are a product mostly of how you're raised and where you're raised. If you're raised in a wealthy family you're more opt to find yourself in a wealthy family in the future, freak cases you can break through your class barriers but people who start financially privileged in the beginning of their lives are definitely more opt to have better futures.