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>'privilege' is used in these topics, it is often rather broadly defined to mean any feature of the accident of your birth that is beneficial compared to others

• sago 12y ago
  From an individual's point of view, no. But when privilege is correlated with a particular group, then it isn't helpful to see it as random. It self perpetuates. But an individual can be lucky to be born into a rich family, but the rich family probably isn't lucky to be rich: it tends to retain its status over generations. Not in terms of absolute dollar value, but its social status.