I would disagree with you there, because I think that this permits a lot of folks to elide the responsibilities of power by claiming to not be powerful because of their educational status or race. Which gets into.... intersectionality!
https://twitter.com/Chris_arnade/status/1442492589144379401
The original paper Crenshaw wrote to explain intersectionality focused on three cases: DeGraffenreid v. General Motors, Moore v. Hughes Helicopter, Inc., and Payne v. Travenol.
These three cases centered on black women experiencing discrimination that took place because they were black women (black men didn't have the same experience, white women didn't have the same experience.)
The intersection between characteristics is really important, and tends to be forgotten (see: companies that tout having a black CEO but are also trash to lower-income employees).
Follow me on twitter for thoughts on race, class, and the time a lumber magnate maaaaaaybe got Tommy Tuberville fired and proooooobably helped get Malzahn fired
(This reminds me that as a kid I had extremely specific rules for what made people 'rich', like 'did you go on something your family called 'vacation' or 'do you own a boat' or 'do you hire babysitters or is it just your annoyed older sister every time')
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