The privilege I'm referring to need not have anything to do with class (or race or gender for that matter), but just the privilege of having been successful. Many people work very hard and yet do not achieve that. The fact of your success, while correlated to your hard work and undoubtedly facilitated by your hard work, is nonetheless not the sure result of hard work; the ability to be able to even postulate a direct causal relationship is a luxury afforded you by the fact that you did, in fact, succeed.
(See also: confirmation bias, survivor bias.)
Not to detract from your success, of course! Good for you. But don't use it as a platform from which to claim that unsuccessful people would achieve more success if only they just worked at it a bit more.
(See also: confirmation bias, survivor bias.)
Not to detract from your success, of course! Good for you. But don't use it as a platform from which to claim that unsuccessful people would achieve more success if only they just worked at it a bit more.