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Who gets to define "made it"? Did the electrician or garbage truck driver who's parents came from just as much not also make it? Why is it implied in so many
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
Who gets to define "made it"?
Did the electrician or garbage truck driver who's parents came from just as much not also make it?
Why is it implied in so many comments around here that anyone who didn't go to college and get a white collar job pushing papers/code/spreadsheets didn't make it?
- thehappypm 5y agoElectricians probably make more than half of the folks commenting on HN.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoThe "average techie" income curve is generally shifted higher than the "average electrician" bell curve though the shapes are different and there's some close areas and intersections.
- pessimizer 5y agoYou're the one who, when trying to come up with examples of people who other people would think haven't made it, came up with electricians and garbage truck drivers. What are you arguing here? That all people are equally comfortable and all jobs are equally good, and that implying that suffering is bad is demeaning to the people who suffer? It's like upside-down wokeness. While some people are arguing to put in wheelchair ramps, this is like instead insisting that implying that wheelchair users can't walk as well as everyone else is prejudiced.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoOh FFS. My point is that it's unrealistic to expect people to go from refugee to hedge fund manager in one generation. Refugee to stable blue collar is reasonable.