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I can’t think of any way to improve your lot in life without working hard. Unless you inherit money or win the lottery, no one is going to hand you a better lif

I can’t think of any way to improve your lot in life without working hard. Unless you inherit money or win the lottery, no one is going to hand you a better life. We have a safety net for the disabled. If you are able-bodied and refuse to work hard yet still complain that life gave you a raw deal, I don’t have any sympathy for you. Everyone I know who is very successful (outside of FAANG employees who seemingly coast towards upper-middle-class riches) has worked very hard. This attitude of learned helplessness is self-defeating. Immigrants literally abandon their children and force them over the border for a chance at a life in the USA. Immigrants know they are going to have to work hard to make it here.

ganzuul 5y ago
If you are pretty you can marry rich.
engineer_22 5y ago
Another way might be a life of crime. But to be a successful criminal, I think, requires some hard work, too.
s5300 5y ago
We (U.S.) do NOT have a safety net for the disabled. Not even slightly I will come back and expand on this later. Jeez does the fact people think that make my blood boil.
michaelt 5y ago
You can't think of any way to improve your lot in life without working hard, but you know FAANG employees who seemingly coast towards upper-middle-class riches?
medvezhenok 5y ago
Immigration is already a filter - not everyone can immigrate, and the ones that can are really motivated (since you have to jump through a lot of hoops to do so). So immigrants can work hard because they self-select for people who can work hard. Not everyone can - the people that can't don't end up immigrating. (I say that as a first-generation immigrant, albeit one who moved at a really young age, so I kind of straddle the line and understand both perspectives) Solutions for immigrants might not generalize to the whole population because of this filter effect.

ganzuul 5y ago

If you are pretty you can marry rich.

engineer_22 5y ago

Another way might be a life of crime. But to be a successful criminal, I think, requires some hard work, too.

s5300 5y ago

We (U.S.) do NOT have a safety net for the disabled. Not even slightly I will come back and expand on this later. Jeez does the fact people think that make my blood boil.

michaelt 5y ago

You can't think of any way to improve your lot in life without working hard, but you know FAANG employees who seemingly coast towards upper-middle-class riches?

medvezhenok 5y ago

Immigration is already a filter - not everyone can immigrate, and the ones that can are really motivated (since you have to jump through a lot of hoops to do so). So immigrants can work hard because they self-select for people who can work hard. Not everyone can - the people that can't don't end up immigrating. (I say that as a first-generation immigrant, albeit one who moved at a really young age, so I kind of straddle the line and understand both perspectives) Solutions for immigrants might not generalize to the whole population because of this filter effect.