The whole white privilege idea is itself a kind of luxury belief because I mean first, what's happening is that like the people who seem to be most

strident and in favor of this white privilege idea are themselves white

And what they're doing is they're elevating their own status right like if a white person at, you know, some fancy college or whatever and in

Sort of a position of prominence says, you know, oh, I do cry white privilege

Is that white person losing status or gaining status right like are they hurting themselves or are they actually elevating themselves you and more

Among their peer group around the people whose opinions they care about

Hello and welcome to trigonometry on Francis Foster. I'm Constantine Kissen and this is a show for you if you want honest conversations

With fascinating people our brilliant guest today is a man who coined the term luxury believes he's a PhD student at Canberra

Drop Henderson. Welcome to trigonometry. Thanks. That's great to be here. It's great to have you on before we get into talking about luxury

Believes and I mean it's a fascinating concept that you've described and I really can't wait to talk about it

But before we do who are you? How are you where you are? What has been the journey through life that leads you to be sitting here talking to us?

Right, so my name is Rob Henderson like you said I'm a PhD student at Cambridge in my final year studying social and evolutionary psychology

Before this I was you know studying at Yale so studying psychology for my undergrad

Worked in the lab there as well in psychology department, and so this is just my sort of broad areas of interest human nature's likeology

evolutionary theory this kind of stuff

I mean before this I I suppose part of what contributed to my

Coming up with this idea of luxury beliefs is my unusual path to higher education so

To back way up. I was born into poverty. I never knew my father

I grew up in Los Angeles my

Mother when I was three became addicted to drugs. She wasn't able to care for me

And so I spent the next few years living in foster homes around Los Angeles. I live in seven different homes

Throughout my childhood. I was adopted by this

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