• kono_throwaway_da@sh.itjust.works
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      What’s stopping you from being rich?

      Let’s say this is right. Then you should try to explain this: Why are most people not rich?

      Did everyone just collectively decide “nah I want to be poor, be stressed and live paycheck to paycheck”? No, of course they don’t. No one does.

      Your logic is idiotic because you don’t realize the rich became rich by exploiting other people, namely the working class.

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          Are they? Or is it because everyone knows their efforts are not compensated properly?

          If you want people to not be lazy, pay them. You pay 10 dollars, you get 10 dollars of effort. Blindly labelling this as being lazy is quite a… hear this, a lazy way of thinking. Heh. Millions are studying in university to get a job, I would say that they are working really hard! But are their efforts reciprocated properly?

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              learning in college isn’t a requirement for success

              Why don’t you tell that to the HR departments then? Oh I feel bad for your generation - when basic critical thinking doesn’t exist.

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                  I know plumbers who make $250k/year.

                  And there are college graduates making 90k/yr in the US. That’s why I said efforts are not being compensated properly. The fact that other trades are earning more does not affect this conclusion, think about it more.

                  Imagine basing your judgement on generational stereotypes. Oh no, millennials. Oh no, Gen Z. Oh no, it must be facebook. What other contributional points can you guys provide?

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              You’ve gotta stop thinking people serving coffee at Starbucks are inferior. They may not make giant contributions to society, and that’s their prerogative. They should still have a nice life, since you still need coffee made by someone else.

              If you don’t need coffee, cool. Low quality morons like you are just background noise to the rest of us living in harmony.

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      Kind of makes it easier if you can get a 60 million dollar loan from daddy like Trump did.

      Or if White Daddy owns an Emerald mine in Black South Africa, taken by force by military from Europe, like was the case for Elron Musk. So how was that fair to all South Africans?

      You are completely blind if you think there is an even playing field.

      Yes there may be the occasional anecdotes, like Jeff Bezos who weren’t born rich, but for them it requires both insanely hard work and luck.

      Anecdotes are not a statistic that proves anything. And the statistics clearly say that if you are rich, chances are overwhelming that you were born into it.

      Yet the rich have a sense of entitlement that they somehow deserve to be rich, but not the people who have to work two jobs, and never have a vacation. How do you arrive at that is a fair system?

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          Too bad. No one can do that.

          You don’t have any influence on luck. So yes, nobody can do that, that’s something you may or may not get.

          Having a better chance doesn’t mean others don’t have a chance.

          I never claimed any such thing, you are arguing a Straw Man.

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              So basically you don’t want to take the chance because there’s a chance you’ll fail.

              I never wrote anything of the kind, you are arguing another straw man.

              You guys are really a broken generation! Social media broke you.

              Yet another straw man, that’s 3 in a row now. Tell me don’t you know what a straw man argument is, since you continue to use them?

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      Jeff Bezos was given nearly half a bil to start amazon. GIVEN, not earned. You have no clue what you’re talking about.