A priveleged person is one who has special rights, advantages or immunities i.e. mostly those with inherited or otherwise substantial wealth.
Does the common working man (women and others included for clarity) have any special rights, advantages or immunities? No, so they have no privelege.
Do the inherently wealthy or those with substantial wealth have privelege? Too right they do, ask Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer, King Chick - Donald (immune from prosecution) Trump. They'll try to deny it by giving some round the houses political bullcrap answer but 100% they do have privelege. They can go to the best schools, best universities, eat the best food (always), travel the world, they never worry about where the next meal's coming from and the list goes on. I'd think most of us on here are 'normal' working class individuals who at some stage in their lives have wanted for something? Those with privelege, real privelege, want for nothing.
I tried to reconcile privelege with earnings and found that the average earnings in the UK, according to Forbes, in June 2024 was £35,724 PA. Average peaks for the 40 - 49 age group at £40,040 PA. That's not enough, in fact not nearly enough, to be able to be considered priveleged. A two worker household, both taking in that level of earnings, is approaching the comfortable level - no more than that (IMO). Take off tax, NI and consider a reasonable mortgage payment (eg £1,000 PM) and there really isn't enough left to make anyone wealthy.
Privelege is therefore in the land of the inherently rich and those with substantial wealth, not in the land of the working person who, on average will never see any level of privelege in their lifetime.
Best I can say for myself regarding privelege? I've been married for 40 years this year (to the same woman), I have two kids and four grandkids and I support Dundee FC rather than them across the road or either of the cheeks, I can choose whether to do something or not do it, go somewhere or not go there (except for work I need to go there), and that's the honest working man's extent of privelege.
All working people are therefore under priveleged because we'll never have the privelege restricted to those who covet their wealth.
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