We Are the One Percent ... And We Stand With the Ninety-Nine Percent

Jesse Estrin @ YES! Magazine - I first realized that I came from wealth when I discovered that not everybody’s family had more than one house. 

It was a further revelation when, growing up, it dawned on me that not everybody else went to the same kind of school I did. I began to understand that my experience of elementary and high school – going to nicely furnished schools with state-of-the-art facilities in a safe neighborhood of West L.A., and with very little diversity and an obsession with getting students into Ivy League colleges—was not the experience of the majority of other children my age.  Read more.