brasty the first rule of privilege is that you don't notice you have it.
People think, but I WORKED for that...I made good CHOICES. They have no idea of the literally billions of people around the planet working far harder for infinitely less with no equivalent choices in sight.
BTW I've made simply FABULOUS choices in my life...I chose to be born into a white middle class family full of stem degrees in a developed country. I further chose a genetic make up that (while also gifting me some not so brilliant health issues) gave me the kind of academic advantage that got me straight A*s without doing ANY work, followed by a string of oxbridge degrees (that did require some work, but not perhaps a fantastic amount). I then chose to accidentally throw myself in the path of someone who whole heartedly supported my career. That support eventually landed me where I am now with a USS pension that apparently while looking like complete shit on the surface may actually be one of the better deals currently going.
I think my really epic brilliant choice though, was to marry young to a man whose father died unexpectedly a few years later, leaving us the proceeds of a crazily successful stock market operation that he had been running on the quiet without telling anyone in his family. Of course this was also a massive set back as it triggered a serious mental health problem in my DH that we have struggled with ever since..but at the end of the day it turns out its rather easier to cope with these setbacks when you own your house outright!
So hooray for brilliant choices and why or why doesn't everyone just do what I did?
ps. The only part of that ridiculous tale of dumb luck and privilege that I feel in any way reflects well on me or mine is that we did collectively use around half the proceeds from the stock exchange caper to fund charity work in the kinds of places where kids are making a living picking through rubbish dumps, and hoping not to get raped while they are at at. It won't have made much of a difference, and probably we should have sent the lot....so that doesn't really help the case much.