Good for you. But luck really plays a huge a part in upward mobility. |
Luck plays in huge part in not being the one run over by a bus this morning, or being on a plane that crashes. Are we going to start re-distributing luck now? Why not good looks too, or straight teeth? |
I said the path was simple, and it is. So is losing weight or being able to run a marathon. Being simple and well defined, and being able to achieve it are too very different things. |
Luck favors the prepared and hardworking. You can continue to make excuses for your lot in life or keeps trying like the rest of us smucks until we make it. Speaking as an immigrant that came to the US when I was 11. I wore used clothes donated by the local churches and was embarrassed at school for using subsidized lunch vouchers. Parents has to work multiple jobs but still had to be on welfare and food stamps for a few years. Fast forward 40 years, my own family's NW is now around 7mil. |
Just curious PP, would you have ever been able to achieve that in your home country? |
I guess we'll never know. But living under a communist regime wasn't our preferred choice so my mom took a risk and took us kids on a small boat along with 4-5 other families to escape. Just curious, would you take your kids on a small boat and float on the sea for 6 days risking pirates and storms for a better life? |
No - that is hard to fathom. My grandparents came to the US with $20 in their pocket. And that was on a safe ship. I can't imagine what that was like, much less what your family did. |
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My ancestors came over on wooden boats during the 15-1600s and began a business here. I guess that was pretty brave. Would you sail on a rickety wooden boat today to an unknown land? |
+1 People like PP are truly blind. They run around yelling "bootstraps!" without realizing how many Americans don't even have boots. |
Privilege is not just about money. You clearly cannot see the privilege you were born into, especially when you spew empty platitudes like your last two sentences. I swear, DCUM has been invaded by corporate-shill Boomers |
In the 16th century that was the height of innovation and technology! Would be the equivalent of us traveling 1st class to another country, no? |
Kind of, if defecating in buckets, suffering from incurable infectious disease and malnutrition could be considered first class. I guess they were living pretty high on the hog. |
I don't know if it will make anyone feel better or worse, but generational wealth usually does not last. Google "how long does generational wealth last." Example:
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/generational-wealth%3A-why-do-70-of-families-lose-their-wealth-in-the-2nd-generation-2018-10 Also, "Research shows the average inheritance is spent within five years ... because of careless debts and bad investment behaviors." |
Defecating in buckets? Man, they even had 1st class 16th century plumbing! And malnutrition was the norm so at least they were on par with the rest of society. Sounds like the 16th century high life! Anyone else want to talk about the ills that their ancestors suffered in the 16th century (surely few and far between)? I mean, given how relevant and proximate to our own lives that is? |