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So is this entire article about how some successful people got help from parents? (And therefore, all must have gotten help from their parents.) Seems pretty ea
by isoskeles 8y ago
So is this entire article about how some successful people got help from parents? (And therefore, all must have gotten help from their parents.) Seems pretty easy to cherry-pick the stories you research and write about here.
Let me skip all the way to the end, spoiler alert:
> If you have the privilege of not having to pay 50 percent of your rent because your parents are paying, how can you advocate for interns to make a decent-enough salary, or for scholarships to support an intern or fellow? That’s where the change comes in.”
I don't understand this thesis. These are the exact type of people who would advocate for "decent-enough salary" because money comes to them for free. The magical thinking required to just demand decent-enough salaries are thrown about by businesses (or other authority figures) that must have bottomless pockets looks very similar to how they think about getting a free ride from mommy and daddy.
Can we find examples of people who get free money from their parents and openly say that everyone else needs to pull themselves up by the bootstraps? I think "Trump" might be the only person others will respond with, cynically at that, given I don't think Trump has said such a thing--he's just a Republican. But otherwise, where are all these trust-fund babies who believe everyone else needs to be a self-made person? Those people don't exist as far as I know.