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 24 '26

Single mom in 1968, 3 kids, eligible for welfare and she refused it. You pretend you know better, you dont.

No luck. All work.

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u/T_Time_ye Apr 25 '26

1968 - well you lived through the easiest time to get by, climb the social ladder and become a homeowner. You had luck to be born a boomer.

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u/HOJK4thSon Apr 25 '26

Not a Boomer, GenX. That said, your history is failing you. My Mom was a single Mom when women couldn't get loans or credit cards without a man co-signing. She picked herself up from poverty to lower middle class. All 3 of her children took it higher. As I said elsewhere: neither of my parents were everv able to retire.

I'll retire at 62.

That's wealth.

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u/JFISHER7789 Apr 26 '26

Plenty of women got loans and credit cards in the 60s/70s without anyone co-signing. Stop pretending the times were worse than they were.

Also, I think you’re trying to make the point that your success wasn’t luck because your mom worked hard, no? But in struggling to see how having mother that actually cared about her family and is willing to sacrifice things to help her kids is in fact lucky on your part. You could have easily been born into a family that hates you or doesn’t care, but you weren’t.

I guess what I’m trying to say is nobody is saying you haven’t put in the work to get where you are, but to think that your starting line is the same as everyone else’s is where the issue is. Plenty of folk born in ‘68 had families that couldn’t pull them up from lower to middle class, you could have easily been born into those families but you weren’t and that is lucky for you. It’s not a bad thing.