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This is just not true, at least in Australia (and I suspect most other first-world countries, including the US). If anything, it's easier to go from having not
by AussieWog93 4y ago
This is just not true, at least in Australia (and I suspect most other first-world countries, including the US).
If anything, it's easier to go from having nothing to a comfortable, middle-class lifestyle than it is to go from middle-class to wealthy.
- Qem 4y agoFirst-world is not most world. And even those places face welfare state dismantlement since at least the 80s.
- AussieWog93 4y agoFunnily enough, most of the people that seem to express this sentiment live in the first world and are educated. I guess people who live in the third world and have mastered English see living proof every day of where their hard work can get them.