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That's what they say, but in practice it's just a class filter. Punctuality and hoop jumping matters MUCH MORE in blue collar jobs than white collar.
It's literally just saying "your family was wealthy enough that you weren't forced to enter the labor market to support your relatives when you were a teenager".
I bootstrapped my way through college because poor family. But at 40 I’m making more than all but one cousin in my entire extended family, aunts/uncles/grandparents all make less than me because none of them went to college save for that one cousin. My degree was in organizational communication and was absolutely the thing that opened the doorway for me, and as much as I loved the major, it’s technically useless.