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The day I became a millionaire (2015)
- webmaven 8y agoInteresting perspective. It is conditioned, though, on the existence of a robust set of safety nets provided by society, and on those safety nets existing long enough that people have grown up with them[0]. Most of the rest of us are approximately one major health issue (for ourselves or an immediate family member) away from a cascade of failures leading to utter devastation and ruin, up to and including an early death. We are the precariat. [0] If the US suddenly had Medicare-for-all and Universal Basic Income tomorrow, you shouldn't expect the attitudes of people who had grown up in less-than-secure conditions to change overnight.
- HiroshiSan 8y agoCan we get a (2015) tag on this?