I don’t blame these people for having good circumstances. Of all the things one could do with privilege/gifts, I think that [working in effective areas] is about as good as it gets.
These people will generally not loudly talk about their background much. It’s an awkward topic to bring it up, and raising it could easily do more harm than good.
I myself have had a bunch of advantages I’m grateful for, I’m very arguably in this crowd.
There’s clearly a challenging question of how status should be thought about in such a community. It seems very normal for communities to develop some sort of social hierarchy, typically for reasons that are mostly unfair (and it’s not clear what a fair hierarchy even means). I think the easy thing to argue is that people should generally be slow to either idolize individuals who seem to do well, or to think poorly of people who seem to be ineffective/bad.
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I don’t blame these people for having good circumstances. Of all the things one could do with privilege/gifts, I think that [working in effective areas] is about as good as it gets.
These people will generally not loudly talk about their background much. It’s an awkward topic to bring it up, and raising it could easily do more harm than good.
I myself have had a bunch of advantages I’m grateful for, I’m very arguably in this crowd.
There’s clearly a challenging question of how status should be thought about in such a community. It seems very normal for communities to develop some sort of social hierarchy, typically for reasons that are mostly unfair (and it’s not clear what a fair hierarchy even means). I think the easy thing to argue is that people should generally be slow to either idolize individuals who seem to do well, or to think poorly of people who seem to be ineffective/bad.