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Whether intentionally or unintentionally you're demonstrating the concept of privilege that some people are making efforts to point out. You want to play the g
by alaskamiller 9y ago
Whether intentionally or unintentionally you're demonstrating the concept of privilege that some people are making efforts to point out.
You want to play the game that you want because you believe yourself to be a rational, intelligent, logical person.
You believe you can win the game.
You don't oversleep, you have a generous data plan.
You can choose.
And you're complaining that the game isn't useful because it doesn't fully allow you to choose.
The type of person that drives for Uber and Lyft in real life don't have the privilege to choose. They are driving for Uber and Lyft.
That's why it's hard.
You may have worked hard to be where you are, you have done it from a kid squatting on the ground to poop in a third world country to being the top earner at a tech company, all by yourself. That's great, that's rare, you deserve whatever accolades you choose to laud yourself with.
Or maybe it's not that dramatic of a distance. Maybe you're a middle-income family that could work to afford college education and you studied and worked hard to afford good sleep and generous data plans.
That initial position is still much better in the distribution model of modern society than many others that can never leave their situation.
What do you choose to do about it?
- mlevental 9y agothank you for posting this. I hope the person you responded to reads it with an open mind.
- dasil003 9y agoI'm sympathetic to arguments from those pointing out my personal privilege and how it doesn't apply to them. But I take issue with the infantilization of lower middle-class people. Not oversleeping or calculating how much data you're using is not a privilege issue, these things are knowable and predictable. It's offensive to all the working class people who do manage their time and finances to keep their head above water to suggest otherwise.
- patrickg_zill 9y agoThat is really an excellent point... I stopped by an automobile repair shop and they were discussing how to best schedule my repairs given the constraints. Yet they are all blue collar workers, but are in fact very responsible.
- yellowapple 9y ago"What do you choose to do about it?" Per the demonstration, it doesn't matter. It's still railroading the player in a very unrealistic way that has less to do with "privilege" (doesn't take much of it to choose to work in Sacramento) and more to do with "I'm going to shove the intended storyline down the player's throat within 30 seconds".