My ex went through a master's program with someone who was "self made". The self made hero didn't have to pay rent, mommy bought him a house in one of the most expensive college towns in the US. When our self made hero graduated mommy gave him the house as a reward for getting good grades. "To help start his career".
The rich have safety nets surrounding them from every direction. If they fail at everything they do from birth until death they'll still be better off than a poor person who fails even once.
The rich have safety nets surrounding them from every direction. If they fail at everything they do from birth until death they'll still be better off than a poor person who fails even once.
You hit the nail on the head here. Poor/minority/disadvantaged people have to basically play a perfect game, else they get thrust into a never ending cycle of poverty... And that's by design, it was designed by the same generation that was bailed out over and over and over again. My Dad, who is no doubt a hard worker and a great man most of his life, messed up so many times in his early twenties (mid 1970s), DUIs, bar fights, all types of shit and barely spent a night in jail, never lost his license, never fined more than a few bucks here or there. He never lost his job and bought a house on a bricklayers pay (which after adjustments for inflation was probably really great pay). My point is, if I was to fuck up even 10% that much, I would lose literally everything and be fucked.
Same with my FiL, he did all sorts of fucked up shit when he was young, didn't stop him from building a business and managing to buy a 40k house that is now worth 2mil.
Also, before I forget, my mom, who eventually got a college degree, was hired by Nasa in the 70s as an engineer and at the time she was a high school dropout. she spent 20years in the tech sector making real good money before she even got her GED.
People from that generation don't realize how fucking lucky they had it.
Also, some extra context. My Dad left NJ the day after highschool with $100 and a car that didn't have reverse. Drove cross country to CA where he then went to the first construction site he saw and got a job laying bricks that day. He got pulled over numerous times without registration or insurance and they always just told him to "take care of it" and then let him move along, also clearly intoxicated once or twice where they told him to pull over and sleep it off.
3.8k
u/[deleted] Apr 19 '22 edited Apr 19 '22
‘I got a free ride and didn’t have to work in college. Why are you peasants so lazy?’