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That's a really good point. To me privilege and oppression are two sides of the same coin though. To recognize one is to, by deduction, recognize the other.

This is really fascinating. This part particularly struck me:

"[Americans'] sense of equality and human dignity is mainly limited to men of white skins. Even among these there are prejudices of which I as a Jew am clearly conscious"

As a non-black person of color, this has been my access point to issues of race and oppression. Thinking about the (relatively) minor prejudices and indignities I've experienced made me a lot more receptive to the idea that things just aren't right for a lot of people. That oppression is real. And it's also made me aware of the privilege that I do enjoy as a college-educated male who's the son of college educated parents.

This is a very prescient and relevant piece by Einstein. I'm glad it's on HN!

Hey Jonathan, just donated.

Have you or your doctors discussed the possibility of getting you on Yervoy (AKA Ipilimumab)(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipilimumab)? It's an immunotherapy drug indicated for the treatment of late-stage, metastic melanoma.

I'm not a doctor, so I don't know if Yervoy could help you or not, but I figured I'd mention it just in case.

A lower salary for a developer in low CoL area doesn't indicate that a company values that resource less than another dev in a higher CoL area. It just means that the company has to pay less in order to reward the developer in the low CoL as much as the employer rewards the high CoL dev. The equation looks like this:

salary - CoL/year = reward_dev

In case anyone is interested in reading more about mine-detecting rats, you can check out an organization called Apopo. They're pretty cool, and you can even adopt your own rat!

http://www.apopo.org/en/