If the word privilege has a one to one correspondence to the word success, as in high profits and wages, then maybe the people who use the word privilege are as

If the word privilege has a one to one correspondence to the word success, as in high profits and wages, then maybe the people who use the word privilege are asking the wrong questions. Maybe they should be asking why growth and wages are non-existent in areas outside of the tech industry. I mean if you had a solution to that it would lift all boats, right? Otherwise it just looks like the politics of envy to me and that just leaves a sour taste in people's mouths. I don't think this form of politics can even begin to work because frankly the profits of the tech industry are not high enough to help everybody suffering in this wage stagnation most people are affected by. To be perfectly honest when I hear the word 'privilege' it is difficult not to notice it nearly always coming from people who are only slightly less fortunate, if that is the right word, than tech sector employees. The hard truth is that the computer industry (and a small number of other industries, like fracking or solar) is just an oasis of success/privilege, call it what you will, in an ocean of misery and diminished expectations. This isn't the fault of geeks or venture capitalists. It is a much bigger systemic problem that even generous distribution of wealth cannot solve for.