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I think my definition of privilege and yours are at very different levels. > - Rent a furnished apartment. You have your own place to sleep at night, with (ni
by Volpe 14y ago
I think my definition of privilege and yours are at very different levels.
> - Rent a furnished apartment.
You have your own place to sleep at night, with (nice) furniture.
> - Use car sharing services
You have access to cars!?
> - Buy ebooks instead of physical books
> - Use Netflix/Hulu instead of owning a tv
> - Use pdf digital signing software instead of owning a printer/scanner/fax
You have access to high speed internet, and advanced electronic devices, and live in a society that supports them.
Most of the people in the world, don't have these things. It's easy for us to sit in 1st world countries and talk about how we aren't privileged because we didn't go to private school, or we buy cheap ebooks on our iPad... but even these things are out of reach for most of the world... that is what I define as "privilege".
- alwaysinshade 14y ago> You have your own place to sleep at night, with (nice) furniture. > You have access to cars!? > You have access to high speed internet Let's be fair - relative to the people around him he's abated his consumption of things considerably and relies on services that are shared or transferable. Sure, if he wanted to be super edgy he could live in a mud hut and write code on a paper pad, testing it out whenever he can access the local community center computer. But relative to the people around him, his consumption profile is conservative and doesn't deserve ridicule. Even if harping on about it is self-indulgent, it is not nearly as bad as the conspicuous consumption and hoarding that so many 1st world citizens take part in.
- barry-cotter 14y agoI think my definition of privilege and yours are at very different levels I didn't downvote your previous post in this thread until I read this one. Almost everyone who can read this website is privileged by your standards. Everyone in my apartment block here in Shanghai is privileged by your definition. Some of them are from Anhui province, or other poor ass provinces, where there are people in the Bottom Billion, people who live on less than a dollar a day. If you are politically tone deaf, you should confine the use of political/sociological terms of art to arenas where you will be understood by everyone or where everyone agrees with your already.
- Volpe 14y agoI would guess that everyone on this website is privileged as well. My definition is based on fact, I realise those facts are confronting, but not invalid. Privileged people who think they aren't just have blinders on.