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That’s a really good point.

According to the NYT

The back pain was not his only struggle. He wrote at times about “brain fog” that had worsened during his college years, making studying more difficult. Doctors could not seem to figure out what was happening, he reported.

“It’s absolutely brutal to have such a life-halting issue,” he wrote. 

He also posted on a page for people dealing with irritable bowel syndrome, saying that he had undergone some testing for the condition. He said the testing had been covered by Blue Cross Blue Shield — his only reference in the Reddit writings to insurance coverage.

As someone who went multiple years from doctor to doctor trying to find the cause for disabling symptoms, I can relate that he must have faced lots of suffering.

When you don’t have diagnosis, the medical system really isn’t there for you. You’re treated as a malingerer.

They did not forgot, they decided they weren't going to campaign on it likely becayse they and their donors benefit from it. Never let them convince you that they just forgot

Luigi was from a life of privilege, parents likely firmly in the 1%, and was incredibly well educated in a high paying field.

He had to deal with the American Healthcare system on what was likely the worst possible plan (he read Any Rand) for one injury in 20s and threw his entire life away to merc a single CEO.

I fail to see how these 2 statements are true, if his parents/family were part of the 1% why would he simply not pay for his medical costs out of pocket?

Maybe if his parents had cut him off in some way, but from what I've seen of the publicly released stuff he seems to be the "good son" so I can't see why they would

Even the privileged have trials and tribulations. Crazy to see how few think 'if that was hard for me, just imagine how it is for those without my privilege '

Unfortunately a tiny minority

I am privileged and haven't had any real suffering, but still turned out fucked up. I can't even imagine how hard people have it, so I will always be an ally.

I hate the term privilege because it sounds like you have something that other people don't have. When in reality privilege is the lack of things.

White privilege means a person doesn't have to worry nearly as much about police. Straight privilege means a person doesn't have to defend their right to get married. Male privilege means a person doesn't have to survive earning 30% less money for no reason.

You are commenting on Yann's "third category" from the twitter image. It's something of a satellite to the main point, which is that the major groups of people are divided by how they feel about others' suffering. How do you feel about that?

Example: I’m queer and white. I have white privilege, but some people have straight privilege over me.

But then privilege is a consequence of the society, not the individual. You can be in a community that doesn't discriminate, at which point neither applies. You can be in a community that overvalues queerness or undervalues whiteness.

The way the last comment frames it as ‘the privileged’ precisely plays into the problem it’s addressing.

People who bought homes in the 90s, when real estate was more in line with wages, benefited from the historical moment. You can call that privileged.

And people inherit property from family. That's definitely a privilege.

But it all overlooks a broader system of cheap lending for mega-rich financial institutions, which allow groups like Blackrock and Berkshire Hathaway to become some of the largest landlords in the country.

Talking about "white privilege" or "millennial privilege" or "native born privilege" in the face of a historic real estate consolidation at the hands of a tiny aristocratic elite seems trite and misplaced.

That last one is called a Class Traitor

that's mostly category 2.

You achieved your winning by some amount of perceived suffering, you want others to suffer too in order to reach this winning state.

that goes in the third category, Pretending how others suffering is their own fault always since it couldnt possibly be caused by anything else.