A good way to test whether X is a privilege or a burden is to ask how much X you’d trade for some other Y that can also be plausibly cast as privilege-or-burden
If you look at actual behavior where trades are possible, it’s an oppression free market, not an oppression Olympics
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One doesn't preclude the other. Things often have both benefits and drawbacks.
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Err yeah that’s the point here. To evaluate *net relative* privilege/burden character because everything has aspects of both
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