superchunk said:
crissindahouse said:
superchunk said:
There's nothing really wrong with what she said and I'm not rich.
I came from very poor background... i.e homeless a couple times. I worked my ass off as did my wife. We both now have Master level educations and a family income of six figures USD.
During college I did not go out and party each night/weekend, I did not join a dumb ass frat house.. don't need to pay to have friends... instead I worked 40hrs a week at retail and busted my ass in a computer lab.
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yeah but that wouldn't work if everyone would do that. not everyone can work as whatever you do, there are only limited ressources for something you can make good money with. it's not as if everyone on this planet could open an own company to make some money or that everyone could work for a company at a postion to make enough money. there doesn't come money from nowhere for everyone and it's not as if there wouldn't be still the jobs people don't get enough money for which the same amount of people have to do like they do nowadays. we don't have robots who can do all the low paid jobs on this planet, with you who doesn't have to do the low paid jobs anymore, there is someone else who has to do it now instead of you.
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Anyone who actually tries can and if you choose not to then you should be happy with your choices. Your life is what you make it.
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while i applaud your story - it's still not typical. want to go to college in the US? it'll cost you tens of thousands of dollars. Want tens of thousands of dollars for college? you'd better have money in order to be able to get that loan.
so let me counter by telling you my story. i was born into money. i was never homeless. i didn't have to put that much effort into school, my school was fantastic and had all sort of AP classes and really awesome teachers. i didn't have to work to pay for my college education and i went to an expensive top 10 school. i did party, and drink, and smoke however. ..and yet despite not putting even half the effort you described above: i've also go my masters and a 100k job.
don't get me wrong, i'm grateful to the advantages bestowed upon me by the luck of my birth. it's not fair though.
