Vespair ( @Vespair@lemm.ee ) English28•3 months agoI agree fully, but I do want to know what the original image said before “birth lottery” was edited in
Troy ( @troyunrau@lemmy.ca ) English9•3 months agoI’m not rich. But I was born poor and am no longer poor. The Birth Lottery blessed me with a brain, and with that as my only asset, I learned esoteric skills which I can parley into a niche career.
But more importantly, the social safety net in my country allowed me to get an education without becoming a wage slave for the rest of my life. Without that, I couldn’t have pulled this escape from poverty off.
I now run my own business. We have no employees – only owners who have self-invested. Our business is growing and I anticipate a comfortable retirement. Haven’t got rich off the working class either.
So, thank you Canada for the opportunities. I’ve tried to make the most of them.
Rodeo ( @Rodeo@lemmy.ca ) English11•3 months agoSo can you answer his question or did you just see an opportunity to brag about yourself.
Troy ( @troyunrau@lemmy.ca ) English8•3 months agoNo. I was pumping socialism as an alternative to birth lottery. Enjoy your day :)
el_abuelo ( @el_abuelo@lemmy.ml ) English5•3 months agoWhat’s that got to do with the question?
Zuberi 👀 ( @Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•3 months agor/thattotallyhappened
Semjaza ( @Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com ) English1•3 months agoSo the birth lottery of being born in Canada rather than Syria, then?
Zozano ( @Zozano@lemy.lol ) English12•3 months agoYou can literally just make the entire second pie chart “exploiting the working class”, because “birth lottery” is dependant on that.
realbadat ( @realbadat@programming.dev ) English7•3 months agoSlightly more accurate may be combining both birth lottery and merciless exploitation.
Since winning that lottery let’s them be the people who can mercilessly exploit people, who then have children who won that lottery, etc.
Isn’t that what it says already? 50/50 bit of both?
realbadat ( @realbadat@programming.dev ) English11•3 months agoOh, I read it as half the people won the birth lottery, the other half exploited people.
As a 50/50 split for the person yeah that’s what it would be
Just how I read the images sorry :)
shortwavesurfer ( @shortwavesurfer@monero.town ) English6•3 months agoOwn something valuable and then borrow against that thing. Easiest example would be to own stock worth say a thousand dollars and borrow a hundred dollars from that stock value you get to keep the stock worth nine hundred dollars growing in value while you pay the one hundred dollar “debt” off. If you ever get to where you could not pay it for some reason, you could always take $100 and pay it off immediately. I’ve heard this referred to as the buy borrow strategy and some people to avoid taxes will use this perpetually and they call it the buy borrow die strategy. Selling an asset often involves extremely heavy extortion from gangs that we call governments, where borrowing from the value of that asset does not incur such an extortion penalty.
Edit: The most important part though is just to make more than you spend from whatever you do.
- shiveyarbles ( @shiveyarbles@beehaw.org ) English3•3 months ago
I agree for the most part. I do know people who got rich by working hard, treating employees fairly and with empathy, and providing a useful service.
Kichae ( @Kichae@lemmy.ca ) English4•3 months agoThem they overcharged for the service
Zuberi 👀 ( @Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English4•3 months agoI can almost guarantee you do not know a “rich” person per db0’s viewpoint
One does not reach the top by “treating employees fairly.”
- shiveyarbles ( @shiveyarbles@beehaw.org ) English2•3 months ago
I’m not asking you, I’m telling you
Zuberi 👀 ( @Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English5•3 months agoHow many members of the 1% do you know?
jack ( @jack@monero.town ) English2•3 months agoHow original
huginn ( @huginn@feddit.it ) English15•3 months agoYeah it’s a bit derivative. Everyone already knows this and agrees with it. It’s self evidently true. Nobody ever needs this explained to them, everyone already knows and agrees!
jack ( @jack@monero.town ) English2•3 months agoIn this community, yes
Zuberi 👀 ( @Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•3 months agoThere is no point to language because everybody has already convened on the one truth
EndlessNightmare ( @EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ) English1•3 months agoGood charts comparing why the “just world fallacy” is indeed a fallacy.