By that logic everyone in the world is privileged compared to those earning 5% less than them, including every person here complaining about a Google employee's privilege. So what does that word mean exactly?

With a few exceptions, everyone here on HN is wildly privileged. The .0001% of world-history.

A wise woman once said: "Now is the envy of all of the dead"

Yes

If you go to the other extreme no one but the richest person on earth is priviledged.

Come on, making 300k a year or more is privilege even within the context of US white collar jobs.

Regardless of the number, getting paid for your labor & skills is not "privilege". Employees at Google are getting fleeced by the corporation and its shareholders just like the rest of us are by ours. Remember the big tech poaching scandal from a decade ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...)?

> just a recognition of fact

It's literally not a fact, it's an opinion.

Hey what's your job? You don't need to tell me. But I'm gonna go ahead and say you're privileged compared to a rural chinese farmer that has never held a phone.

That farmer might be happier though.

Given how many of them leave their kids with the grandparents and move to Guangdong, etc. to work in the factories and live in bunk houses and send money back home, only seeing their kids once a year during Spring Festival, I think they might not be content. (On the other hand, I guess the ones still farming would be happier, by virtue of self-selection.)

Chinese farmer probably has higher data rates on his phone for less per month.

And isn't allowed to play gatcha games or WoW anymore

Welcome to Maoism-Third Worldism comrade

Privilege is necessarily a comparative concept.

Most people in America are privileged compared to a rural Chinese farmer.

The median Google employee is privileged compared to average American citizens.

It's healthy to acknowledge this.

I didn’t deny it actually.

The real healthy thing is to acknowledge what are facts and what are not facts.

A ball is moving 15 mph. Is the ball moving fast or slow?

Btw, you're whole framework for 'privileged' is broken because it's a binary condition and 1 dimsenional.

Check out this incident where a profession NBA player was harassed by the policy simply for being black: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/10/us/sterling-brown-milwaukee-s...

He makes millions every year playing basketball. Is he privileged?

Yes he is.