• young_broccoli@fedia.io
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    8 months ago

    The chart says that 50% get rich by exploitation and the other 50% by inheritance.

    Edit: NVM, Im dumb and misread the meme. Still I doubt they were litterally “dirt poor” so birth lottery still applies.

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      8 months ago

      For sure, never ever trust a wealthy person’s origin story. Even trump and Musk claim to be self made.

      Much better to go with the evidence of our eyes and ears.

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        8 months ago

        You know nothing. I’m describing my great uncle, so I would have no reason to lie. No one else in the family is what you would call rich. I’m simply providing a factual counterexample because generalizing is the surest way to not understand nuance

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          8 months ago

          Speaking of lacking nuance, claiming people “know nothing” isn’t exactly the smartest thing you’ve ever said.

          We have two things here:

          A: I’m describing my great uncle

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          B: so I have no reason to lie.

          How does one relate to the other? Is it unusual for people to lie about great uncles where you’re from? Does this rule apply to, say, regular uncles? How about a great aunt? Does it apply to them too?

          More seriously, the factual real world examples that can be proven and aren’t just “trust me bro” all point to never being able to trust a wealthy persons origin story, even if it is someone’s great uncle. However, that doesn’t mean its literally untrue in every instance or yours.

          The point is, even if 100% true in every capacity, it’s so ultra rare and against such a rigged game that it might as well not be true. That is, if we plan on appreciating the true nuance of the situation.

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            8 months ago

            Idiot, the person I referenced claimed you can’t trust a rich person’s origin story. It’s not my story

            You’re just mad the simple narrative was threatened. I couldn’t give a shit less what you believe

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              8 months ago

              What a childish and hilariously ironic reply. I’m the person who said you can’t trust a wealthy persons origin story. I said it because its true.

              You challenged nothing. All you didn’t was tell a baseless story that anyone could have made up. You give yourself too much credit if you think you either challenged anything anyone said or made me mad by it. It’s pretty pathetic to have to pretend you’ve upset people.

              Even if it was true, its like me saying “don’t jump out of a 10 storey building, you’ll probably die.” and you replying “yeah, well, my great uncle jumped out of a 10 storey building and he didn’t die.” Like, cool story bro but you still shouldn’t jump out of one and, also, no one cares about your tales.

              How about second cousins, would you lie about them?

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          8 months ago

          Except I wasn’t glorifying them. I actually think they aren’t great people but go ahead and jerk yourself some more

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      8 months ago

      You are dumb I agree. Because that’s what it takes to make up stories about other people’s lives to make yourself feel better.

      These were people that literally grew up without indoor plumbing or electricity for years, in a community where owning a car meant you were rich. They were sharecroppers so they owned nothing and slaved away to make rich people money.

      But sure they weren’t dirt poor because some dickhead on the Internet wanted it to not be true so they could keep generalizing people different than them as all the same.

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        8 months ago

        From your other comments I gather that these people were born about 2 generations ago. In a time of economic growth and prosperity, I count that as luck. Also, I said “I doubted it” mr. nuance.