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I 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 g
by glogla 4y ago
I 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?