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Edited by Rei:
1/27/2016 3:47:04 PM
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What do you consider "worked for"?
There are people who work two, three jobs, sleep less than 4 hours a day, and is barely keeping food on the table.
conversely, there are 20-30 year olds with so much money that they can't spend it in 2 lifetimes because their parents are passing money on to them (never had to lift a finger, except to attend some prestigious college that they got into/show up to a job they got because of "connections").
This webcomic should break it down easy enough for you.
[url]http://digitalsynopsis.com/inspiration/privileged-kids-on-a-plate-pencilsword-toby-morris/[/url]
The issue is that there is a wealth gap, and on top of that, your policies are such that it's almost impossible to catch up, no matter how hard you work.
- No minimum wage = people struggling just to feed themselves despite working 140 hours a week.
- Schools not equally available (or equal quality) to all kids when education, at the very least should be equal for all
- Post-secondary education is not subsidized, and tuition fees are off the charts
- You don't have public healthcare, so if you ever get sick, you're just plain -blam!-ed if you're poor.
Can you see where this is going? The policies are currently kicking people who're already down.
The government itself needs to be "fixed". The fact that you can privately pay for politicians to run their campaigns means that you have sway over politicians and their future policies about your business. You have enough accumulated wealth that you can pay politicians to make policies that help you earn even more in the future. It's a never-ending cycle. It's a systems that allows corruption.
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As I stated somewhere below. You're essentially saying there is no such thing as a self made success. You state that successful people just have stuff handed to them. It's just such BS. Are there people that get it handed to them? Yes. Is it harder for some other people to become a success? Yes What on earth does that have to do with you?! My dad (who was killed in an accident when I was 12 so don't be a dick) was completely self made. His dad was into drugs and was never around. He dropped out of community college and worked his ass off in construction. Started his own construction company and failed through difficult times in the 90s. Him and my mom had nothing. Did he quit? No. He started working at New York Life with no prior experience. Read at least one book a week and taught himself how to be successful in the financial world. Eventually became independent and became the biggest annuity salesman in the entire country for 2 different insurance companies. Started a marketing company that employed 200 people. Don't tell me it can't be done
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Edited by Rei: 1/27/2016 4:34:01 PMI'm not saying there's no such thing as self-made success, but that they're rare. Your dad did work very hard to be exceptional at what he did. But that's the thing, he's exceptional. My mother grew up working since she was 13, her parents could hardly afford to let her finish high school. She was never able to afford college and married young, then became a single mother through no fault of her own. She worked her way up to decent positions in various career lines (department store manager, insurance sales person, law clerk etc.), but never got to continue on any because she could never afford the schooling required to pursue it further. She's currently working as a secretary, but she could have been so much more. Mind you, I'm Canadian, so despite my Grandmother getting cancer, my mom was able to make do despite losing one of her minimum-wage jobs (thankfully minimum wage exists) so she could ferry my granny around to all the appointments. If we were in the US, either my Grandmother would have died, or we would be in horrible debt. I'm in huge student debt because my parents never had a education fund for me. Thankfully, Canadian student loans have pretty low interest, and tuition prices aren't as ridiculous as US prices, so it's manageable. There are absolutely people who are able to be successful, but because there's no social safety net, there are so many caveats. All of it assuming you don't get sick, you don't have to take care of your parents, you don't have to support a family, your spouse doesn't get sick, the economy doesn't crash etc. Each of those things set you back, and if you get a continuous string of them... really, you could not give up, but you're also taking one step forward, two steps back. This shouldn't happen. There should be a basic standard of living that everyone in a civilized country can enjoy (not going hungry, being able to afford rent, having access to healthcare, having access to education).
