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A lot of frustration we see isn’t about people doing wrong, but about people having resources others don’t. It’s easy to make jokes about wealthy students, or parents who can buy their kids ten new outfits for school, or people who can afford therapy. But the truth is  those things shouldn’t be luxuries. Therapy, security, access to basic needs and even wants … they should be universal.

The absence of resources we all deserve shouldn’t make us cruel toward people who have them. Unless someone is actively contributing to oppression, their access isn’t the enemy. Wealth, privilege, or support doesn’t automatically make someone undeserving. Some people are wealthy because of their parents’ stability, and while people mock that, my mindset is different: why hate parents who could actually provide for their children?

We confuse privilege with guilt. But privilege in itself isn’t a moral flaw. The responsibility of privilege is to be grateful, not take it for granted, and to create more fairness. For those of us who didn’t grow up with the same access, the challenge is to resist resentment and instead judge people by their character, not assumptions about their resources. Because that knee-jerk judgment is its own form of prejudice.