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You know that "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" was originally coined as an absurd impossibility, right? If you reach down and grab onto your own boots, how
by danaris 4y ago
You know that "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" was originally coined as an absurd impossibility, right? If you reach down and grab onto your own boots, how are you going to lift yourself off the ground?
It's no less absurd in this context. People almost exclusively move up out of their economic bracket by means of luck, not gumption and hard work. If hard work were all it took, then the people working 3 jobs and barely getting enough sleep to live would be millionaires.
- josephcsible 4y ago> You know that "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" was originally coined as an absurd impossibility, right? Sure, it was coined that way. But remember that Schrödinger's cat was coined as an absurd impossibility too, to delegitimize the Copenhagen interpretation, which is nevertheless widely accepted today.