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ITT a bunch of Hacker News denizens discover the idea of privilege.
by damnyou 8y ago
ITT a bunch of Hacker News denizens discover the idea of privilege.
- HumanDrivenDev 8y agoWhat do you mean by privilege here?
- damnyou 8y agoSystemic unearned advantages. An easier difficulty mode for life, if you will.
- HumanDrivenDev 8y agoThen I disagree that it's privilege. A civilisation requires active effort to maintain, it cannot just float by on its own inertia. If people from western countries did nothing but inherit the privilege of their parents, society would quickly erode, and then their passport would be at the bottom of the list as well.
- damnyou 8y agoI never said people with privilege do nothing but inherit it. But the fact that they inherited it makes many things easier. And in any case maintaining privilege is usually much easier than gaining it.
- HumanDrivenDev 8y agoYour definition of privilege was 'unearned'. I would challenge that by saying that privilege is earned by successive generations generating and maintanining said privilege. https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php The nation at the top of this list was a low-income, third world nation 60 years ago. Do you think this happened by accident?