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Originally Posted by Janszoon
I don't really get the public transportation question. I was dependent on public transportation for 14 years of my adult life and it doesn't mean I was underprivileged, it means I lived in cities where owning a car wasn't necessary.
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Exactly, or that public transportation was your choice. There are heaps of questions in the survey that come down to choice or other circumstances unrelated to privilege:
-I don’t have any student loans. I CHOSE to save my money during my first few years of full-time work while my colleagues were partying it up so that I could pay off my student loans. It doesn't mean I'm more privileged than them, it means I didn't spend my money on socialising and dinners and partying and booze... friends of mine who I studied with, from similar backgrounds and on the same salary of me still have student loads purely because of how they chose to spend their earnings.
-I don’t rely on public transportation. What Janszoon said.
-I have never worked as a waiter, barista, bartender, or salesperson. I worked in these fields while I was studying, doesn't mean I'm underprivileged, it means that the conditions of the job suited a student lifestyle.
-I had a car in high school. Not relevant in Australia because you don't get your license until you are 18, and when I graduated high school I was 17 (same with all the "spring break" questions and stuff, we don't have any of that...)
-I’ve never had a roommate. Don't see how this is relevant to privilege.
Etc.