I used to ate with this sentiment, and I still do to an extent, but also I realized “sitting around doing nothing and being bitter” would guarantee I would get nothing.
So yeah success isn’t just hard work, but for most of us, unless you put in the effort you’re not gonna get anything.
poor folks can work and achieve stuff. they just have to beat the odds stacked against them.
and whatever they achieve will just always been less than what the rich and privileged folks were born into, and they will forever look down on them for it.
poor people’s achievements are rich people’s failures. like a poor person going to college is a huge deal… for a rich person it’s the equivalent of learning to tie your shoes.
I’m in the no man’s land of being born into a poor family, having made it ‘big’ by getting a fancy education, but then only having a middle-class life, and basically being told by everyone I’m a rich privileged assholes and a poor loser piece of shit, depending on their mood at the moment, often from the same person. Schrodinger economic status, I guess?
But I’m also an asshole in that I view folks in their economic whole, and I don’t really believe them when they cry poor.
I’ve actually seen a whole lot of boomers born poor as fuck that lucked into the most prosperous time to be alive; finding that almost any property they bought, company they started, stock they invested in (etc) managed to not just make money but succeed significantly and make them wealthy by retirement age, have adopted this same mindset.
TLDR: idiots who were born poor blow this tuba just as much as idiots born rich.
the line between poor and rich was a lot closer in 1950 than it was in 1980 than it was in 2010.
it’s interesting if you watch old movies in the 1980s vs today and compare the ‘average’ lifestyle portrayed. it blows my mind how ‘poor’ families in 1980s films are.
Rich Kid Speak: “I spent years of my life working my ass off to reach the position I’m in today. You slackers just don’t understand what it takes to succeed because you’ve never even tried.”
Translation: “Thanks to the influence of my parents, I was admitted to an exclusive club that perpetuated a series of brutal hazing rituals against me. Eventually, I got to the point where I was allowed to perpetuate these hazing rituals on others. Then I moved on to a new organization with new hazing rituals, until I internalized the idea that perpetually hazing young people was the key to a virtuous upbringing.”
