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> Do what you know is right. Exploit him for financial gain?

• war1025 8y ago
  This is actually something I have been thinking about a lot recently because I was considering switching jobs and it led me to reflect on my position in life. My dad was very similar to the person described. Smart as all get out, just never presented with the right opportunities, and ended up working an assembly line for his entire working life. The difference between a factory job and a more professional field like software is that in a professional field, your employers benefit from you growing. It is worthwhile for them to invest in you because it makes business sense. In a factory, you're a cog in a machine. Often the management goes out of their way to ensure you know your place. A lifetime of being put down like that leaves scars that are hard to get past. "What you know is right" means working to get past that baggage and the other baggage in his life, because the person has the potential to be more than he currently is but has been conditioned their whole life not to see it.
  • trentmb 8y ago
    Your dad should've been presented with help because he needed it, not because there was some un-mined surplus value.
    • mac01021 8y ago
      If we're going to help people based only on need, there's probably a long queue of folks who need help more than he did.