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Social Stratification 2.0

Open Ended

If your life had a “difficulty setting” based on your privilege level, what would it be?

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT a privilege?

• Being born into wealth

• Having connections that get you a job

• A trust fund that mysteriously “earns” money while you sleep

• Working 80 hours a week and still not affording rent

Word Cloud

Give me 1-2 words that come to mind when you think of privilege

Multiple Choice

Your rich friend just said, “Money doesn’t buy happiness.” How should you respond?

• "True, but it does buy therapy and vacations."

• "You wouldn't know—your dad bought your happiness for you."

• "Neither does poverty, but at least money lets you cry in a Ferrari."

• "I’m just happy knowing your inheritance tax might be raised someday."

Open Ended

Describe a time you’ve seen someone completely unaware of their privilege.

Multiple Choice

What is the best way to acknowledge your privilege?

• Deny it and say, “I worked for everything I have” (while standing in front of your dad’s yacht).

• Make a performative social media post about how “we all need to do better.”

• Quietly be aware of it and use it to uplift others without making a big deal about it.

• Apologize to a random stranger for being born in the right zip code.

Open Ended

Imagine you wake up tomorrow with no privilege at all—no money, no connections, no resources. What’s the first thing you do?

Multiple Choice

Why is "pulling yourself up by the bootstraps" a ridiculous statement?

• Because bootstraps don’t actually pull you up—try it.

• Because not everyone has boots.

• Because some people are born on third base but think they hit a triple.

• All of the above.

Open Ended

Let’s say privilege was a physical object. What would yours look like? (Ex: a golden elevator, a VIP pass to life, etc.)

Multiple Choice

You just found out your college roommate’s family owns multiple houses but calls themselves “middle class.” What should you do?

• Ask them how “middle class” feels with a vacation home in Aspen.

• Start referring to their dad as “Landlord Supreme.”

• Politely nod and accept their delusions.

• Challenge them to survive on minimum wage for a month.

Open Ended

If life were a video game, describe a cheat code that only privileged people get to use.

Multiple Choice

If privilege were a game, which of these would be the “easy mode” difficulty setting?

• White, male, wealthy, and a legacy student at Harvard.

• Born into a billionaire family but choosing to work “for fun.”

• Marrying into wealth and calling it “hard work.”

• Getting a full-ride scholarship but still claiming you “earned it all yourself.”

Open Ended

Think about a time when you got special treatment (even if it was small). What happened, and did you realize at the time that it was privilege?

Multiple Choice

Why do some rich people pretend to be broke?

• To avoid paying for dinner.

• To make their rise to success sound more impressive.

• Because being rich is only cool if nobody knows you were born that way.

• All of the above.

Open Ended

what’s something you didn’t realise was a privilege until you met someone who didn’t have it?

Multiple Choice

A billionaire just told you “anyone can be rich if they just work hard.” Your best response is:

• “So what’s your trust fund’s work schedule like?”

• “Yeah, and my hamster is just lazy for not running a Fortune 500 company.”

• “I would work harder, but I’m allergic to wage slavery.”

• “You’re right, let me just go tell my landlord that hard work pays rent.”

Draw

Draw what privilege looks like to you.

Multiple Choice

Which of these is the most effective way to combat social inequality?

• Eating the rich.

• Redistributing wealth… but keeping a little extra for yourself.

• Making sure your privilege benefits others, not just you.

• Organizing a protest—until you remember your parents pay your tuition.

Open Ended

Have you ever experienced reverse privilege—a moment when NOT being privileged actually worked in your favor? (Example: “I never got grounded because my parents were too busy working.”)

Multiple Choice

If privilege were a pizza, how would it be distributed?

• 1% of people get the entire pizza while the rest fight over crumbs.

• Rich people get a free pizza and tell poor people to “just bake their own.”

• Some people inherit pizzerias, others aren’t allowed in the restaurant.

• All of the above.

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