I think it's quite reductionist to land on hypocrisy. One day my dad asked me, "Would you want me to stop paying your fees and use it instead to send about 20 nurses to nursing school?"
I was shook - I couldn't answer.
Then he continued by saying, "I believe I'm making the right https://twitter.com/rakaromie/status/1281509436503339008

decision to pay your fees because I believe that the impact you will make will transcend the impact 20 nurses will make... The responsibility is on you to make that happen"

If indeed, in all cases, the reduction of privilege equates to the betterment of a majority of people

Then it makes privilege ethically irresponsible. But it is possible for one to enjoy privilege and still make the lives of many people better. Eg. Like what Bill Gates is doing.

The metrics we use to peg/commensurate actions against the other when it comes to deontological

situations are very essential. The only case in which privilege becomes ethically irresponsible is when it directly depends on the oppression/destruction of another entity. Also, when a person becomes awakened to the reality of privilege, moral questions

will begin to pop up. Questions of justice, fairness, equality, merit, etc. will wander in the person's mind as they try to reassess the world through a new lens. And in most cases, during this 'new awakening' they are still very oblivious to the very tiny details of their lives

that they don't realise are huge privileges. They see them as 'basic necessities'. It is normal. Because their view of the concept of privilege is still growing - and it's an uncomfortable and many times a slow process. It doesn't make them a hypocrite. Hypocrisy would come in

when the individual works actively against this process. Many of us on this app are still learning and unlearning. And me, personally, like my dad says all the time, 'To whom much is given, much is expected' privilege means RESPONSIBILITY with that privilege

and not always the sacrifice of it. Also, we must also be specific about the variables we use to measure privilege. Privilege can be financial, physical, social, intellectual, etc. Privilege can also be inherent or conferred. All these must be taken into consideration.