Re:Young, Unemployed and Living on the Street
by kokey on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @12:00PM
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I agree that it can be a really bad thing. Just as your upbringing can influence you to become curious, willing to learn and self-motivated, it can also teach you the wrong kind of motivation. I have seen people come from a background where wealth was considered more important than anything, where opportunism and exploitation are acceptable means to a materialist goal, and saw these people turn out as criminals and con men.
Re:Young, Unemployed and Living on the Street
by chii on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @11:42PM
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> Having the fire of destitution in your belly is how you breed Goldman Sachs investment bankers, not good citizens of a developed society.
no way. Its greed and not destitution that breeds these investment bankers to exploit whatever they can to make money.
Re:Young, Unemployed and Living on the Street
by eli_gottlieb on Thursday December 20, 2012 @04:26AM
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But that's the issue. People who grow up poor learn to be greedy.
But, I want to note, that's a good thing. One of my college classmates is a severely messed-up person from being raised by abusively money-hungry and careerist upwardly-mobile parents from India. Having the fire of destitution in your belly is how you breed Goldman Sachs investment bankers, not good citizens of a developed society.