Interesting question. It generated some pretty cool discussion. There was a psychological study where two participants played monopoly and one player had the advantage of starting with more money and an extra dice that allowed them to pass 'go' much more frequently then their opponent. The person with the advantage appeared to love playing while the one without seemed to be pretty frustrated and disheartened. What was interesting though from listening to the taped sessions was that the player with the advantage was super arrogant while playing (laughing at their success and almost like stamping the board with their player token as they moved it, further highlighting to their opponent that they were winning). But interestingly, they never actually acknowledged the fact that they were winning the game because they started off with an advantage. They seemed to simply ignore that and chalk their success up to how they chose to play the game. Their lack of insight into their privilege/advantage was surprising.

I think our society is currently a long way from equality of opportunity and in general we tend to ignore our own privileges and advantages. Though slightly different, It sort of reminds me of the cognitive bias called the fundamental attribution error in which individuals blame their own failures on situational circumstances but others failures on their personal negative characteristics.