Class position determines not merely consumption patterns but access to networks, cultural capital, educational leverage, and assumption of competence—creating compounding advantages that make individual effort and merit secondary variables in mobility outcomes. Understanding your own class position honestly, rather than through meritocratic myth, clarifies which obstacles are structural versus personal.
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