• rekabis@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    12
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    10 hours ago

    A large majority of that is winning the luck lottery of which family you were born into. Most people who have “trouble staying afloat” are also those who are economically disadvantaged… as in, in the lower-90% of the economic population who are desperately just treading water. Most of the people who “breeze through life” have the intergenerational family wealth that permits this behaviour.