Middle class kids like me can get one throw every decade maybe.

[onekind@beige.party]

@skinnylatte Ohh got it! So a level of familiarity with capital flows and mechanisms?

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@onekind that and people not questioning your competence because you are not a racial minority

[onekind@beige.party]

@skinnylatte Yep, got it. Without disagreeing with your overall take, I note that as recently as my mother's early career, her Irish Catholicism was seen as a marker of being not quite white. 'Micks' couldn't get jobs at the tax office, for example, because of the stereotype they are not good with money. I actually suspect it was racism towards non-white skilled migrants that finally consolidated the Micks and the Prods into one single 'white' category in the eyes of the employment market.

[zbrown@floss.social]

@HumToTable @skinnylatte but also he might outright steal her darts, and be encouraged to do so

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@onekind yeah, I’m certain there are varying levels of whiteness, and also poor white people’s experiences are different.

But it is also hard for someone not Chinese in Singapore or any kind of white most other places to get a certain sort of competence ascribed to them by default

[swelljoe@mas.to]

@skinnylatte yep, I'm from working class roots. I got lucky in the stock market during the first tech boom which funded my first throw. Then I got into Y Combinator, which helped with a second (though it was back when Y Combinator invested a laughably small amount of money). After nearly a decade working a regular tech job, maybe I can take another throw...but, now I'm old enough to need good health insurance and a retirement account, so the risk is higher.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

@skinnylatte but, also, it took me years to begin to understand how wealth moves. If you go to Stanford, you're already rubbing elbows with the money people at 22. If you go to community college, you're...not. You're just so much more likely to succeed on your first throw when your dart is accelerated by a huge sum of money from connected investors.