Do they have the information, experience, or responsibility to accurately categorize the specific cultural origin of every single one of those differences? Does it make the argument weaker if they miss a couple? Maybe a little but it's still strong.
> Because they have never been poor, they had no idea what I might do. Why would I steal, when everyone clearly has enough? What even is scarcity? Why drink yourself to death tonight when there’s another sponsored event a week from now? Why eat like there will never be enough, when there has always been more than enough?
...I think it's worth discussing whether they may have misidentified the real root cause.
It's worth discussing I just don't think you contributed anything useful to the conversation with that comment.
To me it reads like you're dismissing the author's experiences based on a technicality, rather than engaging with them on their terms and merits.
Personally, I see someone describing a number of points of cultural difference and an author who wholeheartedly believes they have identified the root of all of them. Is it worth discussing that the real, indisputably valid lived experience of the author, might also be linked to other things?
What if they miss almost every single one? That's how it reads to me, for almost every job I've had. That's why people are reacting like they are to the article.