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Re:The privilege of risk by glhaynes on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @05:10PM (#15453525)
It seems like you're agreeing with what's being quoted: risk of any sort is, well, riskier (in many cases, impossible) for the unprivileged. Maybe I'm misreading you or the quoted part.
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Re:The privilege of risk by oconnor663 on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @05:28PM (#15453652)
I was about to say the same, but on a second reading the language is really extreme:

> only the privileged can take risks

I guess that could be true if we take a position like "everyone is privileged to some degree", but that's not really what anyone means when they say "the privileged", and it would make the whole line meaningless anyway.

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Re:The privilege of risk by colemannugent on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @05:44PM (#15453764)
This is what I was disagreeing with. People are allowed to take risks who are not part of "the privileged", else we wouldn't have terms like "self-made millionaire".
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Re:The privilege of risk by hndamien on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @06:33PM (#15454139)
It comes down to a multiplier effect. If you have no privilege, your multiplier is 0 or inconsequentially small as a risk multiplier for the amount of risk you can feasibly take.
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