Deflecting Privilege News Today

Imagine two men: Toby and Alex. Toby is the son of a teenage single mother who dropped out of secondary school. His mother relied largely on state benefits for the first few years of his life, with some help from family. He grew up in council housing (I guess this is called public housing in the US?), went to a mediocre state school, and eventually got into a good university by getting decent grades in his late teens. Alex comes from a family of academics - two of his grandparents are professors...