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It doesn't hurt that those lucky 10 also work hard. Or may be 9 of them do. Lucky wouldn't appear on your door. Also, you gave the impression that the other 90
by jryle70 8y ago
It doesn't hurt that those lucky 10 also work hard. Or may be 9 of them do. Lucky wouldn't appear on your door.
Also, you gave the impression that the other 90 are losers because they work hard. Life is not an extreme. They may not become as rich, but they aren't poor either, and they maybe lucky in other metrics. They aren't loser.
- isostatic 8y agoMaybe some do. I'm lucky I don't know the meaning of the word 'work hard'. I'm sitting here on a sunday afternoon working, or rather waiting for things to go wrong. Sure it's a 12 hour day, but it's not hard working. Those holding down two jobs and doing 80 hours/week of non-stop work on their feet filling amazon deliveries or cooking burgers or picking fruit for minimum wage know what working hard is. I doubt anyone ever became independently wealthy through hard work. Is it right our society is set up to reward luck above all else?
- rootusrootus 8y agoIs someone making a career out of amazon deliveries or burger flipping or fruit picking really a good demonstration that hard work is not rewarded? That's merely hard physical labor. How about hard work like making sacrifices today so that tomorrow you're not competing in the deep end of the labor pool? I'm not sure that society is really just rewarding luck.
- isostatic 8y agoIt's not just rewarding luck, but luck is a massive part. For every college dropout that goes on to form microsoft or facebook, there's 1000 college dropouts whose business fails because they weren't in the right place at the right time.