Julian658 wrote:I agree, it is a huge advantage to be born in a great family.
There is a difference between
advantage and
privilege. It is an advantage to be born intelligent, attractive, healthy, emotionally stable, conscientious, financially secure, etc., and these advantages will help you to succeed in competition with others. But they help you by making your contribution and thus the rewards for it greater, not by taking anything away from anyone else. So while it may be unequal and undeserved, advantage doesn’t harm anyone else.
Privilege – legal entitlements to benefit from the abrogation of others’ rights without making just compensation – is a far more important cause of extreme inequality than advantage; and unlike advantage, it
does harm others. What is called “privilege” in woke culture – white privilege, male privilege, heterosexual privilege, blah, blah, blah – is not privilege at all but merely a kind of distraction to prevent people from thinking about the real privileges -- land titles, bank licenses, IP monopolies, etc. -- that cause unjust inequalities.