Re:Americans overestimate social mobility in their country
by Swizec on Sunday December 12, 2021 @11:17PM
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Money talk might be an american thing then, not a class thing? Where I’m from everyone is safely broke together so complaining about lack of money is almost used as small talk like weather.
But once you climb out of that, suddenly you stop talking about money. Figured US was the same
Re:Americans overestimate social mobility in their country
by WalterBright on Monday December 13, 2021 @12:49AM
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Talking about money just makes you a target for every charity, scam, people wanting loans, people wanting you to invest in their startup, groupies, and on and on.
I bet it would be really, really hard to become an actual friend of Bill Gates, for an extreme example. I once was at a conference, where he was a speaker, and sat at the lunch table he sat at, along with 7 other people. It was sickening how they fawned all over him. He pretended not to notice, but can you imagine going through life with that happening all the time?
That isn't the reason at all. My parents struggled in the Depression, but they never ever talked about their money. The Depression taught them to be very, very frugal, a lifelong habit. (My family tended to keep cars for 30 years, for example.) I had no idea what my Dad had until after he passed away.
> You don’t fail, you are given an opportunity to grow
This is an attitude common to successful people at all levels. There's a reason it correlates with success.