While it's good to be grateful for our privileges, or whatever we want to call them, gratitude can also be a way to rationalize our situation when it's important to improve it.

Maybe you are privileged, but that doesn't make what you're going through any less special or important. You're a human, and no matter how many needs you may have met, you still have needs. It's okay to express those needs.

To say otherwise is to imply there's some zero-sum of needs getting met. If some get their needs met then that means others cannot get their needs met. If we all work together, then getting our needs met helps others to get theirs met.