It's a combination of material privilege and more superficial stuff, like the way he looks and sounds… During the past election campaign, for instance, he was not visible.
I brought this up last night at dinner with the kids and we had a fantastic discussion about "stuff", privilege, wealth, excess...so your post has already had a great impact!
Hunkering down in the middle of all this are the Knicks -- still potentially ornery enough and talented enough to grind down the youthful Raptors, run away from the transitional Pacers and outbounce the staggering Heat, all for the privilege of being stuffed by Shaq.
Does chilled pea soup sound like the stuff of privilege?
The President promised that China would pay for the privilege of selling us stuff.
Over the last four years, it has been my privilege to write daft stuff about songs; songs which have been in the charts, songs which should have been in the charts, and songs which happily fell short of going into the charts.
These had much less to do with suggestive confectionery and salacious stories than with promotions, pay, working conditions, privileges, slights and retaliations: the stuff of everyday life on Wall Street and in many other places besides.
Not since Fitzgerald, to my mind, has there been a prose stylist who is so in love with things, the stuff and sensuality of privilege.
Should you leave the company or lose your device, all IT has to do is revoke your Okta privileges and presto chango, your work stuff is gone and your personal stuff is left untouched.
If you have not gotten that right, then you do not win the privilege of doing the rest of the stuff.
