I grew up in a poor town. Most people there were lazy and made bad choices and blamed everyone else for their problems.
Rich people, also blame everyone else for their problems, but they tend to make better choices with their time and money. The rich can be lazy and make bad choices, and suffer fewer consequences though. Typically rich kids parents will prevent them from failing, no matter how lazy and useless they are. Poor kids don’t have that advantage in life, and often they have to overcome parents who are in the way of their educational goals…
Ultimately people’s choices are their own. Nobody forces anyone to go to college, or not go. Nobody forces them to study, or not study. etc. They make that choice on their own. And given the nature of human beings, either way, they will be unhappy. Your zipcode isn’t your destiny, and it’s your choice to be happy or miserable with what you have achieved in life.
The most unhappy people I known my entire life are some of the most rich and successful, because they have no objective context and their life is entirely consumed by competition with their peers. I wouldn’t want their lives anymore than I’d want the lives of my drop-out deadbeat drug addict friends from high school’s lives.
The problem with lemmy and leftist (and right wing) thinking is you seem to think ones economic class is equivalent of their moral worth or ‘effort’ in life. It isn’t. Poor people are not necessarily worthy and hard working, anymore than rich people are.
People however, love to feel superior to others, so they create these narratives, pick a side they are ‘on’ and use it to ego-boost themselves in generalities whether those be statistical or anecdotal. Reality however, is far more complex. People mistake their bitterness towards other economic classes as a tale of good and evil.
And having been on both sides of poor/rich, I can tell you both sides hate each other for the same stupid reasons, and both are wrong. And when present with evidence of people like me, who bridge the gap, they basically tell us to go fuck ourselves rather than acknowledge we exist. And ironically they both sides I have ‘betrayed’ them or something, shit is so weird.
It’s also story that’s true.
I grew up in a poor town. Most people there were lazy and made bad choices and blamed everyone else for their problems.
Rich people, also blame everyone else for their problems, but they tend to make better choices with their time and money. The rich can be lazy and make bad choices, and suffer fewer consequences though. Typically rich kids parents will prevent them from failing, no matter how lazy and useless they are. Poor kids don’t have that advantage in life, and often they have to overcome parents who are in the way of their educational goals…
Ultimately people’s choices are their own. Nobody forces anyone to go to college, or not go. Nobody forces them to study, or not study. etc. They make that choice on their own. And given the nature of human beings, either way, they will be unhappy. Your zipcode isn’t your destiny, and it’s your choice to be happy or miserable with what you have achieved in life.
The most unhappy people I known my entire life are some of the most rich and successful, because they have no objective context and their life is entirely consumed by competition with their peers. I wouldn’t want their lives anymore than I’d want the lives of my drop-out deadbeat drug addict friends from high school’s lives.
The problem with lemmy and leftist (and right wing) thinking is you seem to think ones economic class is equivalent of their moral worth or ‘effort’ in life. It isn’t. Poor people are not necessarily worthy and hard working, anymore than rich people are.
People however, love to feel superior to others, so they create these narratives, pick a side they are ‘on’ and use it to ego-boost themselves in generalities whether those be statistical or anecdotal. Reality however, is far more complex. People mistake their bitterness towards other economic classes as a tale of good and evil.
And having been on both sides of poor/rich, I can tell you both sides hate each other for the same stupid reasons, and both are wrong. And when present with evidence of people like me, who bridge the gap, they basically tell us to go fuck ourselves rather than acknowledge we exist. And ironically they both sides I have ‘betrayed’ them or something, shit is so weird.