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"What resources or "connections" do you need?" Money, for one. Time for two.
by s73v3r_ 9y ago
"What resources or "connections" do you need?"
Money, for one. Time for two.
- manigandham 9y agoWe all have exactly the same amount of time every day. How you spend it is up to you. You can choose differently, especially if you're on HN discussing it in the first place.
- s73v3r_ 9y agoSomeone who's working two jobs would disagree with you.
- manigandham 9y agoDisagree with what? That there are 24 hours in a day? They choose to spend that time working 2 jobs. I've done the same in the past. I've decided between buying dinner or getting gas to drive to work to earn enough to cover the commute in the first place. Eventually you make decisions to get you out of that life and into a better one. There's luck involved sure, but I absolutely reject any excuses as if it's completely out of your control.
- FranzFerdiNaN 9y agoI highly doubt you did those things you claim, because if you did you wouldn't say people "choose" to work two jobs and that it's just a matter of "deciding" to stop being poor.
- manigandham 9y agoYou don't think choices matter in making your life better? This is just as sad as thinking that things can also change overnight. No you don't just stop being poor, you plan and get yourself out of it, over a decade if that's what it takes. Either way it's still up to you.
- s73v3r_ 9y ago"They choose to spend that time working 2 jobs." Because otherwise you'd say they'd "choose" to starve or be homeless?
- manigandham 9y agoThis is tired sentiment. Yes, make a plan and get yourself out of it. Situations don't change instantly which is why there are always comments about how it seems impossible - but like any other large goal you only get there with slow steady progress. No matter how bad you think you have it, many others have climbed out of worse. So it's not about choosing to starve but about making those tiny decisions that build up to will eventually get you out of that life. Or you can choose to ignore all that and give up.
- s73v3r_ 9y ago"This is tired sentiment." No, it's reality. It's what you choose to ignore while you blame others.
- manigandham 9y agoYou seem to be making an emotional argument. I'm not blaming anyone. I'm saying that life is in your control and your personal responsibility. Things happen to you, but you can always choose how to react and thereby overcome obstacles. Interestingly, you seem to saying that nobody in that position is at fault and are instead blaming everything else and "reality" which I find rather disingenuous at best. You either have control over your life or you don't, and if you think you don't then there's nothing to discuss and you can pontificate on the lack of free will I guess.
- your-nanny 9y agoJust so fantasies are soooooo appealing.
- manigandham 9y agoIf it's a fantasy then perhaps you're not spending your time wisely...
- your-nanny 9y agoIt is a fantasy because the way the real world works means that people operate under constraints such that they do not actually have productive uses of their time, or that their time is already allocated toward necessary obligations, such as caring for children, or for parents.
- manigandham 9y agoWe all have obligations. Having children is also a choice.
- s73v3r_ 9y agoTell that to a woman who gets pregnant in Texas, or any other red state.
- manigandham 9y agoDon't get pregnant then? Does that just happen without any decisions? Or maybe you should go tell that woman that nothing in her life is her fault.
- your-nanny 9y agoWow, just... really??? Sometimes it doesn't take any decision at all. I leave it to you to imagine all the ways in which someone might get pregnant without wanting to.