> Societal privilege is not measured in terms of the net income of the people who hold the privilege, it is measured in the influence those people have over the

> Societal privilege is not measured in terms of the net income of the people who hold the privilege, it is measured in the influence those people have over the workings of society. For example: the military industrial complex commands huge budgets despite having produced nothing of value for the last 50 years. It commands these huge budgets because generals, senators, and admirals have societal privilege. When a general, senator, and CEO say that society should write a check for billions of euros to build the F-35 or blow up some children, society does it. That is societal privilege.