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How success narratives erase the cost of climbing

My success story gets told at company diversity events but they always leave out the part where I had to choose between therapy and helping my mom pay rent.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Public celebration of upward mobility often sanitizes the painful trade-offs and ongoing family obligations that mobility requires.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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