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Wrong. 5 decades in, started in the trailer park and worked my way up. Had enough life challenges to understand how this stuff works.

by geggam 7y ago

mikestew 7y ago
Then I guess option B is all I’m left with.
- geggam 7y ago
  OK little story here Abusive drunk family, plenty of legal issues as a child, ran over by a drunk driver, ( flatlined 3 times in ICU for a month and disabled ), divorced 2 times, 2 kids, married again, adopted 2 kids, worked my way into silicon valley, now I do ok cliff notes of my life. Judge me all you want but what I have learned is life is a fight to the death. You can lay down and let it run over you complaining about how the deck is stacked against you or you can do the best you can. Your choice. I have and will continue to help those who I see fighting the good fight but I have no empathy for quitters.
  - Frondo 7y ago
    This is a bad way to run a society, that everyone is "in a fight to the death," especially for the wealthiest nation in history. We're sitting on enough resources to feed and house everyone, and the rich would still be fabulously rich. "I struggled, therefore struggle is okay" is not the answer.
    - geggam 7y ago
      I didn't quit and because of that succeeded in spite of the obstacles. There is your example. Trust me... being on disability was an option and quite tempting. I wanted more out of life than to sit around letting others take care of me.
      - Frondo 7y ago
        You know that statement, the plural of anecdote is not data? Lots of people struggle and what you're describing is just crab bucket. You struggled so you think it's okay if everyone does. It's not.
        geggam 7y ago
        Not struggling through life would be what I call privilege. Someone did struggle and gave you that privilege. No one coasts through life without someone struggling.
  - manthedudeguy 7y ago
    "Everyone should have it as bad as I did!"
- dang 7y ago
  Please don't cross into personal attack in HN comments. You did that upthread and then did it more here. That's the wrong way to go. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and eliminate that kind of swipe out of your posts here—regardless of how wrong or annoying you feel another commenter is being. Maybe you don't owe them better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

Wrong. 5 decades in, started in the trailer park and worked my way up. Had enough life challenges to understand how this stuff works.

by geggam 7y ago

Wrong. 5 decades in, started in the trailer park and worked my way up. Had enough life challenges to understand how this stuff works.

mikestew 7y ago

Then I guess option B is all I’m left with.

geggam 7y ago
OK little story here Abusive drunk family, plenty of legal issues as a child, ran over by a drunk driver, ( flatlined 3 times in ICU for a month and disabled ), divorced 2 times, 2 kids, married again, adopted 2 kids, worked my way into silicon valley, now I do ok cliff notes of my life. Judge me all you want but what I have learned is life is a fight to the death. You can lay down and let it run over you complaining about how the deck is stacked against you or you can do the best you can. Your choice. I have and will continue to help those who I see fighting the good fight but I have no empathy for quitters.
- Frondo 7y ago
  This is a bad way to run a society, that everyone is "in a fight to the death," especially for the wealthiest nation in history. We're sitting on enough resources to feed and house everyone, and the rich would still be fabulously rich. "I struggled, therefore struggle is okay" is not the answer.
  - geggam 7y ago
    I didn't quit and because of that succeeded in spite of the obstacles. There is your example. Trust me... being on disability was an option and quite tempting. I wanted more out of life than to sit around letting others take care of me.
    - Frondo 7y ago
      You know that statement, the plural of anecdote is not data? Lots of people struggle and what you're describing is just crab bucket. You struggled so you think it's okay if everyone does. It's not.
      - geggam 7y ago
        Not struggling through life would be what I call privilege. Someone did struggle and gave you that privilege. No one coasts through life without someone struggling.
- manthedudeguy 7y ago
  "Everyone should have it as bad as I did!"
dang 7y ago
Please don't cross into personal attack in HN comments. You did that upthread and then did it more here. That's the wrong way to go. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and eliminate that kind of swipe out of your posts here—regardless of how wrong or annoying you feel another commenter is being. Maybe you don't owe them better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.