Rishi Sunak's leadership video really struck a cord with me, till it didn't

who blatantly states he's living off his family's success?

I don't think people understand...if you go to Winchester, you do not suddenly become a millionaire, you don't get a place at Oxbridge, you don't get a first, you don't get a job at Goldman, you don't get a place at Stanford (the best business school in the world), you don't get a job at TCI, you don't start a hedge fund...that isn't a normal path, he is one of the most successful people not only to go Winchester but to go to Oxbridge.

It is some kind of weird reverse discrimination whereby if you had any advantage at all in life (which, btw, everyone in the UK has...if you are born here, you are already very lucky because you could have been born anywhere else), that invalidates your whole identity. There is obviously a racial element (people of his background are targeted heavily by other minority groups), but...it is just very sad to think that someone's life is going so poorly that they can't celebrate success. It is a completely joyless way to live your life, everything is qualified by entitlement, your class status, your race, your gender...nothing is given.

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