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alarimer

(16,245 posts)

17. If you don't get rich, it's your own damn fault.

Reply to HughBeaumont (Original post)

Tue Jan 26, 2016, 12:52 PM

Jan 2016

Those seemingly contradictory philosophies are actually not all that contradictory. Poor people are poor through their own actions. They are defective people (in other words, not as equal) because they could not pull themselves up.

This philosophy also ignores the giant elephant in the room, which is that NO ONE actually succeeds entirely on their own.

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Explain This To Me Like I'm A Complete Idiot, Part 16: "Exceptional", just like everyone else? [View all] HughBeaumont Jan 2016 OP

It is a rigged game. It favors the the members of the in-club. You are not in the club Vincardog Jan 2016 #1

yup lapfog_1 Jan 2016 #5

And not only that, "they" don't want you in the club...they will black ball you... CTyankee Jan 2016 #10

The zip code in which you are raised will probably determine how successful hifiguy Jan 2016 #14

It's simple. Conservatives don't believe in equality.* Hortensis Jan 2016 #2

George W. Bush was an example of a man of quite modest intelligence guillaumeb Jan 2016 #3

"Class Warfare" HughBeaumont Jan 2016 #7

I disagree with the "..hard work and fortitude.." part of GWB. elias49 Jan 2016 #11

Agreed. There should be a special font one could use to convey irony. guillaumeb Jan 2016 #16

Sounds like Thomas Friedman nxylas Jan 2016 #4

And trust you me . . . HughBeaumont Jan 2016 #6

Friedman would have to rise a LONG way hifiguy Jan 2016 #13

Translation: "I got mine, fuck you." Warpy Jan 2016 #8

their real "solution" is to die off 0rganism Jan 2016 #9

if you can't dazzle them with genius hifiguy Jan 2016 #12

they always say they're for "equaity of opportunity" not "equality of outcome" MisterP Jan 2016 #15

If you don't get rich, it's your own damn fault. alarimer Jan 2016 #17

Despite the growing amount of assertiveness in the US media that millionaires ARE "self made". HughBeaumont Jan 2016 #18