Re:Is the Drive for Success Making Our Children Sick?
by ryandrake on Sunday January 03, 2016 @09:05PM
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Funny, because an obsession with work is at odds with an obsession with financial success--they have nothing to do with one another. While hard work may help make one incrementally better off than the Joneses, when it comes to actual financial success, luck and family connections play a much bigger role. The whole "hard work makes you successful" narrative only furthers the interests of the already successful.
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Re:Is the Drive for Success Making Our Children Sick?
by atomicfiredoll on Sunday January 03, 2016 @10:38PM
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Sorry. I didn't mean to necessarily imply that the financial successful ones always going to the ones working the long hours. (Although, some do work hard in hopes of it.) My intent was to partially indict financial philosophies or entities so focused on success that they pressure and use workers in less than savory ways.