I wouldn't take downvotes personally. My instance doesn't even have downvotes lol. I know someone who detects and bans people who do mass downvoting against people or communities they don't like. I guess it makes people feel powerful 🤷‍♀️

People don't like being told they are privileged. You can be privileged and still have an extremely tough life and still need to work really hard. I think of myself and all the struggles I had to get to where I am today, but once I had my degree it was a fucking breeze to get employment and licensure as compared to foreign trained engineers who are routinely exploited for their experience without proper compensation, for example. I say that as someone who had to work while in school, had to totally stop education to work for two years, took on a second (simultaneous) thesis project because I thought it would help with finding employment, did a bunch of temp jobs, and still took 13 months to find a job that might have lead to licensure after graduating. At least with my already accredited degree employers would look at my resume.