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Inheriting million dollars is luck not privilege. This discussion doesn't make any sense whatsoever as you decided to cling to a made-up instead of vocabulary d

Inheriting million dollars is luck not privilege. This discussion doesn't make any sense whatsoever as you decided to cling to a made-up instead of vocabulary definition of privilege [0]. The same is happening to other words these days. For example some people modified the term racism so that according to their definition you can't possibly be racist towards white people. Which is obviously idiotic, but at least it allows these people to push their sick racist agendas. Like I said, there is nothing to be achieved here when you're using your own definitions of words. [0] https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-thesaurus/privilege https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-thesaur...

cortesoft 5y ago
Ok, look at number 2 definition: "the power and advantages that come with great wealth or high social class" Well, your luck gets you a lot of wealth, which is having privilege
schwartzworld 5y ago
> Inheriting million dollars is luck not privilege. I'll take the bait. I can't tell if you're confusing things on purpose but here goes. If you are Richard Pryor in Brewster's Millions, sure, it's just luck. Most people do not mysteriously inherit money, but get it from older relatives they are close with. If your parents die with a million bucks to leave to you, your life was already very different than someone whose parents die nothing, or worse a mountain of debt. People who can't afford to send their kids to college, for example, probably don't have a mil to leave them. I am not sure I've ever heard of someone just randomly lucking into that kind of inheritance. It probably happens sometimes. But getting that million dollars suddenly enables you to live a very different life, and you get to take advantage of things that people who live paycheck to paycheck cannot. You cannot say that does not fit the definition you linked.

cortesoft 5y ago

Ok, look at number 2 definition: "the power and advantages that come with great wealth or high social class" Well, your luck gets you a lot of wealth, which is having privilege

schwartzworld 5y ago

> Inheriting million dollars is luck not privilege. I'll take the bait. I can't tell if you're confusing things on purpose but here goes. If you are Richard Pryor in Brewster's Millions, sure, it's just luck. Most people do not mysteriously inherit money, but get it from older relatives they are close with. If your parents die with a million bucks to leave to you, your life was already very different than someone whose parents die nothing, or worse a mountain of debt. People who can't afford to send their kids to college, for example, probably don't have a mil to leave them. I am not sure I've ever heard of someone just randomly lucking into that kind of inheritance. It probably happens sometimes. But getting that million dollars suddenly enables you to live a very different life, and you get to take advantage of things that people who live paycheck to paycheck cannot. You cannot say that does not fit the definition you linked.