I guess you just interpret the word "privilege" differently; it's an advantage. Being able-bodied, being free of significant emotional or cognitive impairment, having had access to a certain type of education, being raised in a stable household and/or to functional parents, being able to live in a city with a wide variety of employment a…
I guess you just interpret the word "privilege" differently; it's an advantage. Being able-bodied, being free of significant emotional or cognitive impairment, having had access to a certain type of education, being raised in a stable household and/or to functional parents, being able to live in a city with a wide variety of employment and cultural opportunities, even being (yes) male and conventionally attractive... all privileges. Nothing to feel "guilt" over, but certainly ones I recognize others don't have and that (whether they "should" or not) make my life somewhat easier in many ways.
All this is not privilege, it's a roll of a dice. Which might change any minute - education and even decades of work experience will not protect one from a sudden layoff; health is not a permanent constant; city life becomes too dangerous to sustain; attractiveness...you get my drift. Memento mori, and carpe diem. You feel compassion for people on the downside of Fortune's Wheel - then help them, but you have nothing to feel guilty about for not being there yourself.
Besides, all these advantages, as you see them (I do not, necessarily) are not the topic here. All negative commenters in the threads respond to OP family's high monthly income and how they manage their budget. They see it as an unearned privilege. It is not.
I guess you just interpret the word "privilege" differently; it's an advantage. Being able-bodied, being free of significant emotional or cognitive impairment, having had access to a certain type of education, being raised in a stable household and/or to functional parents, being able to live in a city with a wide variety of employment and cultural opportunities, even being (yes) male and conventionally attractive... all privileges. Nothing to feel "guilt" over, but certainly ones I recognize others don't have and that (whether they "should" or not) make my life somewhat easier in many ways.
All this is not privilege, it's a roll of a dice. Which might change any minute - education and even decades of work experience will not protect one from a sudden layoff; health is not a permanent constant; city life becomes too dangerous to sustain; attractiveness...you get my drift. Memento mori, and carpe diem. You feel compassion for people on the downside of Fortune's Wheel - then help them, but you have nothing to feel guilty about for not being there yourself.
Besides, all these advantages, as you see them (I do not, necessarily) are not the topic here. All negative commenters in the threads respond to OP family's high monthly income and how they manage their budget. They see it as an unearned privilege. It is not.