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People can, and have been, calling the ability to work from home a privilege. I think what you are calling "privilege" is an advantage, but it seems to me that
by perl4ever 7y ago
People can, and have been, calling the ability to work from home a privilege.
I think what you are calling "privilege" is an advantage, but it seems to me that because there is a consensus that "privilege" is bad, that's what everything is called whether it really is or not.
Have you seen the cartoon (there are many variations) comparing equality with equity? Where there are three people of different heights, and equality is where they each have the same height crate to stand on to see over a fence, whereas equity is where the shorter ones have more of a boost.
The thing that I noticed about that, is that it seems implicitly to be saying that advantage, if uncompensated for, is bad and shameful, while appropriate privilege is the remedy.
Isn't it reasonable to call it privilege when people are held to different standards, and advantage when people have different difficulty with the same standards?