Which of the following would cause you to view the person as most privileged, given you know nothing else about them?
- $75k gift at 1855.6%
- PhD at ivy league school14.9%
- Extremely attractive16.4%
- Default happy brain13.1%
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By any utilitarian metric, a default happy brain (high hedonic set-point) is the ultimate privilege. Yet it goes unmentioned by intersectional theorists....
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If you're always happy, or rather if your brain is always in a default happy state, then you will never strive for greatness or meaningful challenges.
Humans are problem-solvers and strife gives us motivation to achieve those difficult things.
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None of the above. I personally try not to think that people have it better then me based on things. Life is never fair
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A PhD at an Ivy League school is a sign of diligence, however one received admission to the program itself.
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If Ivy degree undergrad or graduate had been an option then I would have selected that.
PHDs take a lot of hard work and tine. Not a privilege pursuit most of the time.
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"default happy brain" seems like the *best* advantage but since the question is what would cause you to *view* someone as the most "privileged"... i picked the $75k gift
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It depends on how you are defining privledge. The current SJ definition seems different than the dictionary definition. One places negative moral judgement whereas the other describes an advantage. Using the later, it's clear that a positive brain would be the largest privledge.
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