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When financial security allows career choices others can't afford

I'm a trust fund kid working at a nonprofit and my colleagues would probably hate me if they knew I don't actually need this salary.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Economic privilege enables the luxury of purpose-driven work while creating potential resentment from those constrained by financial necessity.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Privilege and its acknowledgment?”

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