[yvonne]

I'm glad you were all able to get through Stanford on money you earned yourself without the help of parents, people who built the roads, groundskeepers, people who cleaned the dorms, shopkeepers who sold you clothes, and all the people who make the food you eat and the clothes you wear.

I'm pretty grateful for the loans I received for my education. Somebody had to supply those loans, which ultimately were paid for through others' labor, whether the money was from taxes or private money lent to banks. I'm grateful for the work study jobs I had. Somebody had to work to supply the money for the grants for those projects. I'm grateful for the scholarships I received. Somebody had to labor to so that the people/foundation that supplied it to me could have the money. Oh, yeah, then there's my mother who worked at a barely above minimum wage job as a seamstress to put food on our table while I was "earning" all the above.

You guys who went to school without the help of loans, grants, and scholarships, well guess what? Even you had to somewhere along the line had to rely on laborers. Somebody had to manufacture the goods in the factories that your white collar parents made their money from. Somebody had to supply the water, clean the offices, made the air conditioning systems, build the buildings.

Even Leland Stanford couldn't have made his money if not for the steel workers who made the rails, the boiler makers who made the engines, the manufacturers who made the seats, the textile workers who made the cloth, the people who cut and shaped the wood, the people who laid the lines and put the rails together, the porters, the conductors, the engine drivers, the people who load the goods into the cars.

Nobody in even a primitive society does things individually, much less in a complex society like our own, and for every white collar worker, there are dozens, if not hundreds of blue collar people forming the foundation.

[yvonne]

I'm glad you were all able to get through Stanford on money you earned yourself without the help of parents, people who built the roads, groundskeepers, people who cleaned the dorms, shopkeepers who sold you clothes, and all the people who make the food you eat and the clothes you wear.

I'm pretty grateful for the loans I received for my education. Somebody had to supply those loans, which ultimately were paid for through others' labor, whether the money was from taxes or private money lent to banks. I'm grateful for the work study jobs I had. Somebody had to work to supply the money for the grants for those projects. I'm grateful for the scholarships I received. Somebody had to labor to so that the people/foundation that supplied it to me could have the money. Oh, yeah, then there's my mother who worked at a barely above minimum wage job as a seamstress to put food on our table while I was "earning" all the above.

You guys who went to school without the help of loans, grants, and scholarships, well guess what? Even you had to somewhere along the line had to rely on laborers. Somebody had to manufacture the goods in the factories that your white collar parents made their money from. Somebody had to supply the water, clean the offices, made the air conditioning systems, build the buildings.

Even Leland Stanford couldn't have made his money if not for the steel workers who made the rails, the boiler makers who made the engines, the manufacturers who made the seats, the textile workers who made the cloth, the people who cut and shaped the wood, the people who laid the lines and put the rails together, the porters, the conductors, the engine drivers, the people who load the goods into the cars.

Nobody in even a primitive society does things individually, much less in a complex society like our own, and for every white collar worker, there are dozens, if not hundreds of blue collar people forming the foundation.