The world is vast: some people don't have the privilege of their next meal, a roof over their heads, their home even existing tomorrow. Getting stopped by cops in one of the many places where we're a minority doesn't really stack that high up on the scale of it all.

The reality is you probably are privileged, and so am I compared to my parents who grew up on mud floors and lost siblings to easily preventable conditions, and that's why it's pointless to go around Hacker News of all places and throw around the "you're privileged card"... like 99.9% of the people here aren't also just for having the time to be here.

Why are you trying to downplay his experience and tell him stupid platitudes that he already knows? Do you really think he doesn't know that someone somewhere has it worse than he does?

If you jump to "privilege" for someone saying "take the money instead of hoping to ride out a PIP at Amazon", you have in fact forgotten that people have it worse than you.

There's a difference between knowing something and remembering it.

When you get booted out of the country if you lose your job, it really doesn’t matter what neighborhood you lived in.

If you're reading this you're better off than half the world. If you're reading english on a computer and have food in your fridge, you're doing well.

> If you're reading this you're better off than half the world.

And you call that "privilege"?

Sadly, most people using "privilege" word see "being better than half of the world" as privilege, thus devaluing the word to almost nothing.