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This is such an evil thing to say. You got lucky. Telling people who were not that its their own fault for not trying is just such horrible thing to say. How c
by glogla 4y ago
This is such an evil thing to say.
You got lucky. Telling people who were not that its their own fault for not trying is just such horrible thing to say. How can people have so little empathy, I will never understand.
- xyzelement 4y agoIf you tried and failed, I have respect. If you didn't bother "because it's impossible" (nihilism) then I have zero sympathy.
- glogla 4y agoI succeeded - I have a condo, summer house and drive a damned Jaguar. I just have empathy with people who don't, because they weren't lucky, like me. I'm not going to go tell people "do it! go buy more lottery tickets! don't give up! you will get there eventually" because I won the lottery.
- xyzelement 4y agoWould you tell people "acquire valuable skills, seek to sell them to quality employers or start your own business delivering tangible value"?
- pixl97 4y agoSeek valuable skills... oops, sorry I just invented an AI that replaces those skills. Too bad about that loan you took out on a house. Value is not a given unless you get big enough to lobby for rent seeking. For the rest of us it's a lottery.
- Apocryphon 4y agoWhat quality employers? Tech, which we now see has been built on ZIRP for the past decade plus, overhired for the past three years and is on the verge of mass layoffs and hiring freezes. If an industry, which was seen as not only stable but lucrative for decades, is actually just one big bubble profiting off of past monetary policy, doesn't that just make one feel a little economically nihilistic?
- revolvingocelot 4y agoHey, it could just be a troll! Or someone with nonhuman morality! Consider the dubious truthiness of "every house that comes up on the market is immediately snatched up by some 30/40 year old who is buying a home for his growing family", but then consider that the corporate person "Blackrock, Inc." is indeed 35 years old.
- xyzelement 4y agoI keep hearing about black rock but that's not who's moving into unneighborhood.