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It's like saying "living a healthy lifestyle doesn't stop cancer because my friend lived very healthily and died of cancer at 40" when less than 1% of people su
by notahacker 4y ago
It's like saying "living a healthy lifestyle doesn't stop cancer because my friend lived very healthily and died of cancer at 40" when less than 1% of people survive past 40, many of those that do inherited immunity to cancer and most of the rest had some sort of identifiable genetic advantage
- refurb 4y agoHuh? "Self-made" can be middle class entirely. Not 1% of the population.
- notahacker 4y agoYou were replying to someone talking about the relative work ethic of billionaires in a topic about self made millionaires... (But again, if you want to lower the threshold, whilst it is indeed more feasible to become "self made" "middle class" for most valid definitions of those two terms, most people's middle class status has a lot more to do with their background and skillset than their work ethic relative to "working class" people)
- blitzar 4y agoUsing the litteral 'millionaire' net worth marker that is the top ~8% of adults in the US. If class is measured purely on net worth, as much as it might feel like it - it is not middle class to have a net worth of 1 million USD.