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Are you taking into account the luck of genetics and what income level you're born into? As someone born into a middle class family in a certain area, with cer
by Miner49er 6y ago
Are you taking into account the luck of genetics and what income level you're born into?
As someone born into a middle class family in a certain area, with certain genetics, I have been able to easily obtain middle class, with very little effort. If it's this easy for everyone why isn't everyone middle class? I don't feel like I've worked any harder then people who are worse off then me. If anything, I think I work far less hard.
- recursivedoubts 6y agoI am not prepared to discuss or generalize from your specific situation. I have seen very wealthy people lose it all due to laziness and worldliness and I have seen very poor people become successful despite many roadblocks. Broadly, in the upper class environments I have been in, luck and connections appear to play a larger role in major success. If you feel guilty about your relatively easy success, I do think that focusing on both gratitude and charity is an effective moral approach.
- coliveira 6y ago> I have seen very wealthy people lose it all due to laziness and worldliness and I have seen very poor people become successful despite many roadblocks Everyone knows about anecdotes like this. The real question is: how many rich people lose everything (especially the ones born into wealth)? How many extremely poor people move up a lot? You'll see that these are exceptions rather than a common event.
- recursivedoubts 6y agoI do not have any hard numbers on this information, although my general understanding is that social mobility has decreased lately. Unfortunately, that may be due to a number of reasons. Excluded from this conversation (luck vs. merit) is nepotism, for example, which is neither. I am suspicious that this is not unintentional.