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The more power you have, the more damage you can do through ignorance.
Do you mean individual or collective power? Individually the average poor citizen may not have much power, but collectively they can do stupid things like voting for the candidate promising to "make the rich pay their 'fair share' ".
I think the privilege model is neither completely true nor completely false, and one of the ways it falls down is that it's framed as absolute about members of groups (and according to a static list) rather than being about a statistical tilt.
The problem is as I mentioned, to the extend it is true, it doesn't correspond to the connotations of the word "privilege".