I actually think that privilege can be finite. Isn't scarcity of resources the basic assumption in economics? For example, there is not infinite number of colleges, if you consider education as "privilege." I believe that the tension between the privileged class and the underprivileged class, in which the privileged class is trying to guard their privilege, is one of the most recurring patterns in the history. However, I think good can still come out even when you perceive your privilege as finite. Granted, some people have more privilege than they need, and if diminishing marginal utility is ever true and people realize that, then privilege can be shared. I saw statistics that there are 300 million children in the world who never owned a pair of shoes. Projects that give used shoes that people donate to these children can be a small example of how people can share their resources when they have more than they need…

-- EstherKwak - 09 Feb 2009