> When I was growing up in foster homes, or making minimum wage as a
> dishwasher, or serving in the military, I never heard words like “cultural
> appropriation” or “gendered” or “heteronormative.”
>
> Working class people could not tell you what these terms mean. But if you
> visit an elite university, you’ll find plenty of affluent people who will
> eagerly explain them to you.
I figured out as soon as I saw the link title that the author's examples for "luxury beliefs" would
just so happen to be associated with a feminist and anti-racist outlook.
> But unlike luxury goods, luxury beliefs can have long term detrimental
> effects for the poor and working class. However costly these beliefs are
> for the rich, they often inflict even greater costs on everyone else.
This is certainly true for a high number of luxury beliefs, such as "trickle down economics", "small government" advocacy and "catallaxy", none of which come up often among dishwashers; and all of which freshman students at Yale, who just read their first essay on Friedrich Hayek, will gladly explain to you.
