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Let’s start with you have to grow up in an environment where you can the rules of the game, generally by watching others. If you know how to “hard work” yoursel
by actually_a_dog 4y ago
Let’s start with you have to grow up in an environment where you can the rules of the game, generally by watching others. If you know how to “hard work” yourself into growing up right, I’d like to know how.
- WalterBright 4y ago> I’d like to know how 1. stay in school 2. pay attention in school 3. go to college 4. don't do drugs 5. don't do crimes This is a solid ticket for anyone wishing to get into the middle class.
- pclmulqdq 4y agoYou forgot: 6. Don't have children out of wedlock That derails a lot of people.
- actually_a_dog 4y agoAlso, "be born in, or be able to get to a country that has enough opportunities."
- WalterBright 4y agoChoose to move to another country, choose to fix your own country, choose to do nothing but curse the fates.
- wadd1e 4y agoI've been reading your replies in this thread, and I'd highly recommend you to just take a moment and reflect on what you've been suggesting to other commenters. Your replies have been ignorant at best and pure nonesense at worst. I'd elaborate but I don't have the time and energy to justify myself, so I understand if you take this with a grain of salt, but I wanted to let you know nonetheless.
- WalterBright 4y agoYou're welcome to express your opinion. I'm not interested in defeatism. It doesn't work for me, and I've never seen it work for other people. On the other hand, I've seen plenty of people who took responsibility for their lives, and thereby improved them dramatically. If I may assign you some homework: 1. what do you want to accomplish in life? 2. what are you going to do about it? I know the current popular narrative in the United States is nobody ever actually accomplishes anything. It's always luck, privilege, you didn't build that, etc. I don't buy it. It's all excuses, defeatism, envy and misery. If you want to improve your life, don't buy it, either. I was once told I was so "lucky" that I had a propensity to work hard. Geez. I laughed at the guy. (Actually, I'm very lazy. My dad said I was never afraid of hard work, I'd lie down right next to it and fall asleep.)
- SamoyedFurFluff 4y agoHere’s something that puts a wrench in your idea: disabled people exist and are often denied immigration explicitly because of their disabled status. Statistically everyone is simply not yet disabled. Some people are just disabled earlier in life than others, permanently affecting their capacity for work, immigration, or other self improvement without external assistance (such as medical intervention, without which they would die). In the disability community there’s a lot of just plain luck: how severe is your condition? How much support can your family supply? Are you in a country with a robust healthcare system? Are you able to afford medication, or are you able to dedicate the time to fight for medication, medical equipment, etc? Does your country have accessibility laws? And before you call this defeatism: actually pushing harder than is realistic usually makes disability much worse! It’s instead important to realistically understand what’s available to you and frankly speak upon factors beyond your control. Otherwise people end up despairing and killings themselves way more, because they keep setting up expectations and blaming themselves when their circumstances prevent them from doing things they used to do before their disability.
- WalterBright 4y agoUsually I preface comments of mine on this topic with "legally consenting adults with a reasonably sound mind and body."