Thank you for sharing Minda! Perspectives are fascinating and shaped so much by our background and cultural experiences. We integrate our experiences with what we know, or feel, to be innate truths to form a unique perspective unto our own.

You and I have had remarkably different experiences growing up and professionally, yet we share a lot of perspective. I am an ancestor of many generations of Americans, yet when my parents received a call that I refused to stand up and say the Pledge of Allegiance in 1st grade (mainly because I was defiant) my father went down to the school and argued with the Principal on my behalf that it was my right. Next thing you know, I was allowed to go out in the hall during the pledge if I so chose. I would like to think that an immigrant classmate's parents would have had the same results, but who knows - that might have just been a manifestation of the white privilege that I been granted given my background.

I had every leg up, educational advantage and opportunity to get rich and be financially successful in life if I so chose, but instead I chose a life of public education. When my daughter was in her formative years, I left the classroom and drove Uber like yourself for four years to create time with my daughter and have had a few women scoff and turn away from me because of my driver profession and paltry bank account, like the white venture capitalist did to you.

I would love to leave my daughter with generational wealth, but if I don't because I chose time with her over money, and working altruistically over making a fortune, I will not feel as though I have failed her or my grandchildren. If growing up with wealth and advantage makes you value money over human connections and experience, then it is not worth it in my opinion... Let my grandkids learn to love and live as well as learn and earn their way.

It is interesting because despite our drastic differences in experience and upbringing, we share perspective and now work together to fight vigilantly for driver rights - chopping away against the very same system that gave me a leg up and threw hurdles in your path. Keep working hard and striving towards truth and communal wellness and I know you will get your due - and I already know that you know that the winner is not the one who leaves the most money behind...