But I don’t see what insecurity around asking for help or mentoring has to do with wealth or lack thereof?
This to me sounds more like an issue of shyness or low self-esteem than anything to do with money or class.
I think the same of a fair few other items on that list as well.
Reading the list, most of them are pretty harmless if not annoying. But one struck me as something completely different:
> I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because I was afraid to seek mentorship from anyone above me, convinced that even asking would seem like bothersome begging. I watched the people around me network effortlessly, assured of favors and good words put in. I could only think in terms of what I could offer and how I could survive; they were thinking on the next level where they never had to wonder if they were good enough. They were to the business-class manner born, at least.
Seaweed Snack vs Cheetos is a class thing, and maybe cultural (I could see people of East-Asians origins reaching for the seaweed more than the Cheetos).
But not being able to get help or mentoring and to network is an enormous barrier to career progression.