Some of Silicon Valley's top talent are immigrants who arrived with zero baseline privilege and achieved success through hard work, ingenuity, risk, sacrifice, and some luck. Framing equality as opposed to privilege conflates equality of opportunity with equality of outcome and can mischaracterize initial disadvantage. Recharacterizing post-success immigrants as 'privileged' obscures the effort and risk required to succeed from a disadvantaged starting point. A distinction exists between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome. The debate over privilege intersects with uncertainty about the future of H-1B visas for highly skilled migrants, which could affect the composition of tech talent.
I'd argue you're too easily moved by the choice words. 'privilege' and 'equality' are selected because they confuse the notion of fairness.
If you're accustomed to succeeding due to hard work, ingenuity, risk/sacrifice, and, sure, some amount of luck, having the outcomes reset so that everyone is rewarded more equally feels unfair.
Silicon Valley's most successful are the immigrants who found America as one of the only places on earth where an individual with zero baseline privilege can struggle and sacrifice and effortfully succeed,
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