You can argue all you want that lazy people will be lazy but stop and ask yourself why people are the way they are. Chances are, if you grew up with nothing you'll never have anything.
I said this same story on the TXB forums. But in my opinion, too bad. Nobody said life is fair. Every one is dealt a different hand. Some guys get pocket aces and are the children of Bill Gates. Some get a 2 and a 7 off suit and live beside garbage dumps in a third world country. You do the best you get, and shouldn't expect hand outs. One part luck, one part effort.
Out of all the posters on this board, I highly doubt there are many that are on the same level as my parents growing up, yet they made it, took care of us kids, raised us well.
- Communist country
- Assets taken over
- Various parents killed/suicide
- Mom and her brothers (my uncles) imprisoned for who knows what
- Parents got their asses to Canada through some shady ways, after pleading/bribing guards
- Both knew zero English
- Both learned English over time and perfectly bilingual now
- Have fun trying to learn English as a teenager for the first time. And don't forget French too because back then the major Canadian City was Montreal, not Toronto. Montreal was the big city immigrants went to
- Dad worked from the time he got here.... starting at crappy waiter jobs, while going to school at night
- Took around 8-10 years of night school to get University degrees. Degrees that normally take 4 years straight through as a typical student
- Had hardly any money
- First residence on their own was renting..... SOME GUY'S GARAGE
- Didn't get their first car until my dad was about 35 years old. Have fun taking the bus in snowy Montreal
- When my dad reached about 30 or so years old, he finally graduated and got a steady decent job and then it snowballed into better paying job and decades later we are in the situation we are all in now
- My parents taught us hard work, stay in school, don't blow money on dumb things, and in general don't be a idiot.... (crime, drugs etc...). It worked for us
Next time I see them for dinner, I should ask them what they think of guys sitting around at home, not wanting to work hard or not wanting to work for low wages, and instead preferring waiting for gov't cheques in the mail..... I bet they'd scoff and say those guys are lazy freeloaders.
Money and wealth also go hand in hand with the career you choose. Never mind the third world guys who are stuck in the middle of nowhere with no clue what to do or where to go, but just for people with dead end jobs. People fully know what jobs/career fields have the potential to pay well and which ones don't. And if they need to flip burgers because they lost that office job, it means two things.... one, you don't have the skills to get re-hired by someone else, or two, you are in dire need of cash if have to force yourself to make $10/hr (before taxes) since he/she didn't try building up a rainy day fund because most people in life will get let go from a job at some point in their 40 year working career.
Like Bunz said, capitalism is kind of like a pyramid scheme. All it is is monopolization at the end of the day. If you've got money, you can make money. If you don't, good luck. Simple as that. Seriously, you stuck up people who think everyone has the same opportunity in life as one another need to get a clue. Then again that's why you're stuck up isn't it? Go figure.
And Bunz is right. I said something similar and that if you build up up assets, a person has more opportunity to grow their money. All they have to do is not blow it on dumb things like buying 3 homes, 8 cars and new sets of fancy clothes every year. As long as you live a normal life and don't try to live it up life on the edge, a person with decent cash should have net dollars left over every month to slowly build up a pile. I'm no millionaire and neither am I some VP making a million dollars. Yet if you don't blow your wad of cash, it builds over time.
