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ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
3. You make a good point
Sat Jan 6, 2018, 12:58 AM
Jan 2018

However, these are all service industry jobs. Even if you own your business, you still have to put up with rich assholes as customers. Moreover, we fool ourselves into believing that education is the only way to upward mobility. It's a false assumption, but middle class American culture insists on it.

I have met three people in my life who were entrepreneurial minded and smart enough to pull off creating a business. Actually, one of them was my best friend in college, and he took over his father in law's custom boat building business.

LOL canetoad Jan 2018 #1
When are Liberals going to learn? Baitball Blogger Jan 2018 #2
You make a good point ProudLib72 Jan 2018 #3
Trickle-Down economics over-simplifies how money gets redistributed in red counties in Florida. Baitball Blogger Jan 2018 #13
Sometimes the homeless shelter, or whatever local organization PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2018 #5
+1 Baitball Blogger Jan 2018 #12
If we followed the European educational model of apprenticeships for industry disalitervisum Jan 2018 #4
Yes, and have NJCher Jan 2018 #6
Our educational model is celebrity apprenticeships. dchill Jan 2018 #8
Yes. PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2018 #9
There you go. dchill Jan 2018 #7
Trickle Down Economics in Real-time djacq Jan 2018 #10
A little math lesson is in order. Rocket_Scientist65 Jan 2018 #11
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