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Re:Americans Are Skeptical That Hard Work Will Pay Off by marknutter on Monday April 10, 2017 @10:46AM (#14078883)
Perhaps the better way of saying it is that most lazy people end up being poor, rather than most poor people end up being lazy.
Re:Americans Are Skeptical That Hard Work Will Pay Off by biuwvibu on Monday April 10, 2017 @11:39AM (#14079427)
I'm sorry but do the rich really work that hard ?

First of all, for the rich work is optional, which means they get to choose the work they do. That's why rich people tend to be actors and artists. Maybe at times they do work hard, but it's for their vanity and mental health not of necessity. Their hard work isn't why they're rich, they were born rich.

Rarely do you find rich people cleaning old-peoples arses in hospitals.

Most hard-working normal people earn just enough to get by and most rich people were born that way.

Re:Americans Are Skeptical That Hard Work Will Pay Off by notacoward on Monday April 10, 2017 @12:27PM (#14079903)
While technically true, "most lazy people end up being poor" is still misleading. Most lazy people stay where they are, and there are already more poor people than rich ones. Statements about the resulting correlation aren't as constructive as statements about causation would be. "Most lazy people don't advance" is probably about as close as one can get to the original statement without being offensive.