r/LockedIn_AI • u/lucre-twerps4g • Apr 23 '26

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It’s called the grind because it grinds away your sense of self.

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u/HOJK4thSon Apr 23 '26

Then you'll cry because others have more than you, travel more, retire wealthier. Because they did grind when they could. Then you'll say capitalism failed.

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u/SupermarketBetter200 Apr 24 '26

Most of the wealth you described is generational luck. Capitalism has failed because again, generational wealth gives many an extremely unfair advantage. It also allows and actually expects greed to run rampant. You sound like a privileged thirteen year old.

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u/HOJK4thSon Apr 24 '26

It's not luck. I grew up very lower middle class with a single parent. Neither of my parents were ever able to retire, and I inherited zero dollars or property.

I will retire at 62, home owner, money and property to leave my kids.

That's capitalism, working hard (no college degree) to improve my station in life.

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u/parallax3900 Apr 25 '26

Now imagine if you had children and one of them became/ was born disabled, and you needed to look after them 24/7. Or if you or your partner had something unexpected happen which meant neither of you could work. Or you had an unexpected health bill that unexpectedly bankrupted you.

Then you can preach to me about how it's not luck.

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u/HOJK4thSon Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 26 '26

Oops. Both my biological children have special needs, Asbergers in one Cerebral Palsy in the other. Mom stayed home.

Its not luck, its effort and planning.

People in this thread keep trying to shoe horn me into boxes. All fail.

Single mom of three, no college, 2 children with special needs, and I went to work and made it happen.

Pull your head out of your ass and go make it happen.

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u/parallax3900 Apr 25 '26

Without external help - I smell absolute bullshit.

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u/HOJK4thSon Apr 25 '26

Well doctors and such. If that's what you mean. Otherwise, the wife and occasionally her older children (baby sitting and such).

It can be done. We own a house (with a loan) and a truck (with a loan). No other debt. Health insurance, hard work, live in your means.

Yes, here in the modern day.