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In practice, I think this gets you politicians who are completely detached from the common man – what do you mean you don’t have a personal maid that does all y
by vore 3y ago
In practice, I think this gets you politicians who are completely detached from the common man – what do you mean you don’t have a personal maid that does all your shopping for you?
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoThis is only true for inter-generational wealth.
- renjimen 3y ago“Self-made” people can have their own distorted understanding of how a healthy society works (through hard work and sacrifice! /s)
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoIs it your belief that self made people got there by not working hard? Name a self made person that didn't work hard.
- hotpotamus 3y agoName a "self made" person - presumably an infant who was abandoned and somehow survived on their own, and then built everything they used to live on. Pedantic I'm sure, but it's such a ridiculous idea in a modern industrial society as to be meaningless anyway.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoThat's not what self made means, try again.
- vore 3y agoI don't think that's true – look at your average Wall Street first generation finance bro, I don't think they can understand the plight of the single mother clipping coupons to scrape by.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agocan you? If someone who grew up poor or middle class cannot understand once they've gotten financially stable, then who the hell can?
- vore 3y agoThe people who are still in those situations who the system is failing?
- ejb999 3y agoIs the 'system' failing, or did an individual fail to understand the system and then learn to adapt and overcome against the odds? I would prefer to vote for the person who grew up in poor/difficult circumstances and managed to succeed (in some way) despite those circumstances, over someone who grew up in the same poor circumstances and couldn't figure out how to make it. Which person is better equipped to help people help themselves? The one who did it? or the one who couldn't figure out how to do it?
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoself made millionaires can't understand what it's like not to be a millionaire because poor people exist? wut?