Re:U.S. GDP grew at a 4.9% annual pace in the third quarter,...
by asow92 on Thursday October 26, 2023 @12:05PM
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It can take generations of working hard to break out. It took five generations for my family to break out of deep poverty into the upper middle class.
Re:U.S. GDP grew at a 4.9% annual pace in the third quarter,...
by ativzzz on Thursday October 26, 2023 @12:15PM
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Note that I also listed
> are lucky / have talents / have connections / have resources
The more of these you have, the higher your odds of success. Just hard work on its own, like you see, is not necessarily enough
Nope, and in fact the American Dream is exactly this - it's saying that if you work hard / are lucky / have talents / have connections / have resources (the more you have the higher chances you have), you too can rise above the common person and join the ruling class of
> Slave owners, robber barons, industrialists, tech owners
Of course this is out of reach for most people, and for the vast majority of people, as soon as they climb out of the common class, they immediately look down upon the common people, since they are now above the peasants. This is human nature. Everyone who complains about the rich will do the same thing as the rich as soon as they become rich