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> just a recognition of fact It's literally not a fact, it's an opinion. Hey what's your job? You don't need to tell me. But I'm gonna go ahead and say you're
by gretch 4y ago
> just a recognition of fact
It's literally not a fact, it's an opinion.
Hey what's your job? You don't need to tell me. But I'm gonna go ahead and say you're privileged compared to a rural chinese farmer that has never held a phone.
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- sgtnoodle 4y agoThat farmer might be happier though.
- prewett 4y agoGiven how many of them leave their kids with the grandparents and move to Guangdong, etc. to work in the factories and live in bunk houses and send money back home, only seeing their kids once a year during Spring Festival, I think they might not be content. (On the other hand, I guess the ones still farming would be happier, by virtue of self-selection.)
- Gibbon1 4y agoChinese farmer probably has higher data rates on his phone for less per month.
- red-iron-pine 4y agoAnd isn't allowed to play gatcha games or WoW anymore
- ismokedoinks 4y agoWelcome to Maoism-Third Worldism comrade
- mediaman 4y agoPrivilege is necessarily a comparative concept. Most people in America are privileged compared to a rural Chinese farmer. The median Google employee is privileged compared to average American citizens. It's healthy to acknowledge this.
- gretch 4y agoI didn’t deny it actually. The real healthy thing is to acknowledge what are facts and what are not facts. A ball is moving 15 mph. Is the ball moving fast or slow? Btw, you're whole framework for 'privileged' is broken because it's a binary condition and 1 dimsenional. Check out this incident where a profession NBA player was harassed by the policy simply for being black: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/10/us/sterling-brown-milwaukee-settlement-spt/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/10/us/sterling-brown-milwaukee-s... He makes millions every year playing basketball. Is he privileged?
- hsn915 4y agoYes he is.