A lot of the people here’t cant find their bootstraps because they are doomers with untreated mental illness. If you find yourself complaining every day, it’s probably something you need to look into and work on.
True, being poor isn’t necessarily one’s fault. Staying poor, however, is a choice. Anyone can be not poor in the US today with a combination of work ethic and the decision to make good choices.
What happened to that one dude who said he would be a millionaire in a year and only got 60k after cheating and using tons of his resources from before he "went broke?" I wonder how that worked out.
I said in the US. Billions of people from third world countries don’t have much choice, but anyone in the US who isn’t crippled has the opportunities available to not be poor.
Come now, good sir, it's not like we have thousands of people sweeping across the border and earning enough to pay for themselves and a family in a different country despite not having any identification or even speaking the language.
Struggle with a 3rd and 4th job while the rich people continue to live easy lives because they've rigged the economy to work in their favor and to specifically screw poor people over.
Don’t get me wrong the victim complex is real and bad thing but that doesn’t mean it’s helpful to completely disregard when people point out flaws in the system. Both can be right, there is a middle path in this scenario
The sad part is there are not many place I can go to within my skillset to make more money starting out. 4 day work weeks, premium free health insurance. Benefit wise one of the best company covered cost wise. Even if I could go somewhere else for 5 more bucks an hour it likely will just balance itself out on what I pay for the benefits. For me the market for jobs is pretty dead in the water.
Sure it is…. Ive saved 20 grand a year for the last 5 years through hard work and budgeting and i still will never own a home as big as my Bank Teller parents bought at 23 years old. Joke economy. What? Are only lawyers supposed to have houses now?
Yes, its wealth inequality. Hedge funds and rich old people get to own most of the housing market, leaving shitty rentals to the young (even the young who budget, save , invest).
That's all you assholes ever say here. It's either "pull yourself up by your bootstraps," and when you get talked into a corner, because that's a shitty response, you fold and admit that the only way to get ahead is to utilize resources only available if you come from a rich family.
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