[quote=Vortex] Firstly all countries are privileged or not, there's a reason they call Australia "the lucky country" and when you compare Aus and the states to idk a place like Somalia for instance, it is clear who is privileged. In places that had colonisation from Europeans, again I will go with Somalia, the Europeans immediately began exploiting the reasources and enslaving the people there , not caring for the country or her people, so it's not fair to say that the true natives f Somalia shaped their history when most (of modern history) of it has been in white hands. If everyone is reduced to the same economic status that's fine with me for no one will be winning but non shall be losing we will all be in the same boat. [/quote] When you compare Australia to places like Somalia, the distinction that you observe isn't the result of privilege, it's a result of what the people in that country did in history to improve themselves. Australians were guided under the British to develop industry, take advantage of their natural resources and organize their society in an advantageous way. Australians of the past contributed to their future. Somalians of the past evidently did not. I'm going to go on a tangent with this and remind you that European colonial imperialism is the best thing that has happened to humanity in its history. Back to privilege... Privilege is a special advantage that someone or something is given. The children of billionaires are privileged. They didn't have to work to get their fortunes, they were born into them. Entrepreneurs and the industrialists that founded the plutocratic family lines of billionaires are [i]not[/i] privileged. Working hard, coming up with a new idea or contributing to the economy in any which way and then making a profit because of that contribution does not make you privileged (except in that you live in a glorious capitalist society and not some shithole socialist prison-country). Does it make you rich? Absolutely. Rich, but not privileged. Now back towards being reduced to the same boat. The salient issue here is that being put in that boat is a decrease in wealth for you and almost everyone else in your country. [quote=Jannah]However, because nobody will hire me and I've been unemployed for years[/quote] Ninety nine times out of a hundred, people who have been unemployed for a long period of time have no one but themselves to blame. That's not necessarily your circumstance, but what've you been saying in this thread leads me to believe that it probably is.