TheRealMafoo said:
I used to be very poor. I am now very well off. I got here, because I worked harder then the next guy. Rich people would love it if poor people made more money. It's only the poor that see wealth as a fixed amount of money, and the only way to become rich is to somehow take it from someone who already is rich. That's farthest from the truth. If 10 million people in this country when from povery to millionaires, the wealthy would be wealthier, not the other way around. The Wealthy know this. Trust me, it's not a "them vs you". It's a "government vs you". |
There is some truth to claiming that working harder doesn't (necessarily) make you better off in the long run, and the reason for this is that some people work really hard towards achieving something which has a very low chance of providing much of a reward. An example of this can be seen at most Colleges/Universities in the degree paths that most students choose ...
As an employee your earning potential is determined by the combination of how many people are qualified to do your job, how many similar positions are available, and how many people would want to do that job. What this means is that degree feilds that produce a similar number of graduates to the number of industry and academic positions available (like engineering and computer science) have moderate wages and steady employment, those that produce less graduates than the number of industry and academic positions available (medicine) have high wages and constant employment, and those that produce a lot more graduates than the number of industry and academic positions available (humanities, social sciences and fine arts) have low wages and high unemployment/underemployment. It doesn't matter how hard you worked if you decided to get a degree where there was only 1 industry/academic position available for your 100 person graduating class and you're the second best student ...
