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There may be a language issue here, but to be clear: Elitist != rich. I've run across many poorer folks who harbour elitist attitudes (like, say, ascribing me

There may be a language issue here, but to be clear: Elitist != rich. I've run across many poorer folks who harbour elitist attitudes (like, say, ascribing mental or moral failings to folks who choose to indulge in sex, drugs, or alcohol).

MikePlacid 4y ago
There easily can be a language issue here, but I believe the only negative word I used was “defect” and I’ve applied it to myself, not to my classmates who chose to indulge in these wonderful things you’ve listed. Sex is indeed wonderful. Alcohol also gives you some pleasant feelings. I do not get nicotine at all but people seem to enjoy it, who am I to disagree. Note that indulging in all these pleasant activities does not prevent you from being successful. A lot of my heavily drinking classmates became rather accomplished. We have a head of a regional KGB office (our region is about 2 mln people, a dozen counties or so), a head of regional sanitary office (a medic who checks business medical safety compliance), doctors, engineers… And if I was born say a hundred years earlier there would be no such a crazy demand for computer specialists, and I would have probably landed a job of math teacher at high school, or if I was lucky - at community college like my granddad. Math teacher at high school - only some brain defect can lead you to give up pleasures of booze to get such a job, no?