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It was the poor fleeing a shithole of a country where they were being oppressed, to America, where they were poor but had a chance, and then going from poor to
by rdl 13y ago
It was the poor fleeing a shithole of a country where they were being oppressed, to America, where they were poor but had a chance, and then going from poor to less poor to well off to supermegarich.
i.e., the American Dream, post-1998 edition. I suspect the jump from "Nazis might kill me" to "poor in America" was roughly the same jump as "poor in America to working in technology" and from "Yahoo! to founding my own company". The founding-my-own-company to sold-to-Facebook was probably the smallest actual jump in subjective quality of life.
- GenerocUsername 13y agoGoing from "I could buy a boat" to "I should buy a boat". What a hero
- strlen 13y ago> I suspect the jump from "Nazis might kill me" to "poor in America was roughly the same jump as "poor in America to working in technology" From personal experience, the first was _far greater_. To quote my brother (who became quite successful as well), I'd rather clean streets in US than live in former USSR again. Being poor in America is by no means pleasant, but the change from being middle-class but 1) from a wrong ethnic group 2) (in my personal case) with a heavily individualistic orientation in former USSR was _far_ worse (one word: "conscription").