Are You Downplaying Luck’s Role in Your Life?

Re:Are You Downplaying Luck’s Role in Your Life? by basurihn on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @10:21PM (#15087138)

Its an easy concept to grok, but I ain't buyin it, homes.

Sure, you can be born poor, and that makes life hard. I've seen it, or more appropriately my dad did.

And while he picked himself up by the bootstraps, thats increasingly hard to do nowadays.

Ask my poor white brothers who have a HARDER time than someone who can get the Racial Bonus of Hiring +1.

Its your stupid obsession with the decades-expired innate disadvantage of color which is getting you mocked, and for good reason.

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Re:Are You Downplaying Luck’s Role in Your Life? by CamelCaseName on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @10:41PM (#15087221)

The grass is always greener.

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Re:Are You Downplaying Luck’s Role in Your Life? by basurihn on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @11:40PM (#15087427)

I am not sure what that means in this context. I will assume I have touched a nerve and you wish to rebut. Your rebuttal asserts that a black woman would enjoy my brothers' advantages, and vice-versa. Except the saying is advice to stop worrying about one's life situation, which seems counterintuitive to whatever point you were trying to make.

If I'm incorrect, I'm sorry for misreading you.

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