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> We’re fed myths that they all started from the bottom and worked hard enough and smart enough to get where they are, and you can do it too! i know this may b
by throwaway98797 4y ago
> We’re fed myths that they all started from the bottom and worked hard enough and smart enough to get where they are, and you can do it too!
i know this may be rhetoric but i’ve never heard someone say that. a lot of folks in power say “I got lucky but also worked hard”
it’s counter productive to claim the elite is this super disconnected group of people. because they are not and it weakens the case for reform.
let’s be honest many successful people work hard, yet most unsuccessful people don’t.
there’s a number of lazy successful people
there’s also a bunch unsuccessful hard working people
nuance is better than hyperbole
- PuppyTailWags 4y agoThe elite are a super disconnected group of people. My understanding is that their children don't even have the same capacity for empathy as children from other classes. Money literally changes how humans think, such that humans with significant wealth have a different psychology. There is of course nuance but let's not pretend like moneyed people, new or old, are normal.
- jdmoreira 4y ago> My understanding is that their children don't even have the same capacity for empathy as children from other classes I don't know. It seems like you are dehumanizing rich kids which I don't really think it's a great idea. Sure, entitlement is a thing but it's not like rich kids don't have their own struggles
- PuppyTailWags 4y agoI never said anything you are disagreeing with.
- TuringTest 4y ago> let’s be honest many successful people work hard > there’s also a bunch unsuccessful hard working people The key point is that the number of unsuccessful hard working people is humongously larger than successful hard working people, so working hard does not really correlate with having success, no matter what the survivor bias tell them.
- throwaway98797 4y agoprobably philosophical difference “so you’re saying there’s a chance!?” is good enough for me, plus when i work hard i feel better even when it doesn’t pay off.
- TuringTest 4y agoRight. It's the same reason why people buy lottery tickets.
- int_19h 4y agoIf by "reform" you mean keeping these elites, then yeah, there's no case for that kind of reform. We're way past the point where that was viable. The question now is how much violence will be involved in the next reboot of said elites. That it is coming has been obvious for almost a decade now.