Who are you to decide what to name categories, you ask? The answer is, you don’t have to. The underprivileged do not need your ironic quotes, their lack of privilege is not the social construct you make it out to be – they are simply underprivileged because they lack the privileges you have. You can slough off your privileges and join them for dinner, but they can’t transcend their status quite so simply. Is not the fact that they strive to attain the privileges you enjoy proof enough that they are underprivileged? There is nothing noble about poverty.

“Why does my life, with all its supposed security and comfort and opportunity, set the standard for what a healthy, privileged life should be like?” Because you have access to clean drinking water and if you didn’t, won’t be raped on the way to the well because you’re from a lower caste.

There is objectively analysing what constitutes privilege and then there’s romanticising “the other side of the tracks.”