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Spoken like someone who has no idea what they’re talking about.

• Swizec 6y ago
  How so? I’m living proof that you can still pull off the social mobility part of the american dream. Arrived in this country with some $3000 to my name, now here we are 5 years later I am little different than any other spoiled coastal US person.
  • willis936 6y ago
    Yes. I believe that someone rich enough to move from Russia (and the correct ethnicity) had only $3000. In those 5 years you also spent $100,000 on an education so that you could get a job that paid you well? Was an education not part of the “$3,000” or are you saying the American Dream is to be very white, gamble with your life, and be very lucky?
  • throwlaplace 6y ago
    you're a white guy that moved from slovenia with a degree already and $3000 in cash. slovenia isn't moldova or romania or ukraine - gdp per capita ppp is 36k. your $3000 is twice the median savings of black people and hispanics in this country https://www.valuepenguin.com/banking/average-savings-account-balance#median-savings-balance-by-race https://www.valuepenguin.com/banking/average-savings-account... what social mobility? you were middle class and you're still middle class my family actually immigrated as poor people (refugees) 30 years ago from a shit country (moldova) and we're all doing very well in tech now but that doesn't mean i'm blind to the inequalities faced by systematically marginalized people.