Also, I don't think people should (or mostly even do) view unearned privilege as "bad". It's just something to try and recognize. Nobless Oblige, as my dad says. If you can recognize that you have some privilege, earned or unearned, you can try and confer some of it to those less privileged, instead of hoarding it entirely to yourself.
As a determinist, I see all privilege as unearned, anyway. We are all equally dependent on the luck of the draw for basically everything. If you recognize that you have more of any thing, including talent or intelligence, then it is your moral duty to do the best things for the most people that you can with it. Doesn't mean you can't do things for yourself (as a matter of fact, you must take care of yourself in order to care for others), you should just seek a balance.
Aka: Taoism.
As a determinist, I see all privilege as unearned, anyway. We are all equally dependent on the luck of the draw for basically everything. If you recognize that you have more of any thing, including talent or intelligence, then it is your moral duty to do the best things for the most people that you can with it. Doesn't mean you can't do things for yourself (as a matter of fact, you must take care of yourself in order to care for others), you should just seek a balance.
Aka: Taoism.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead