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Yallow

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3. When You Come From Nothing It Is So Much Sweeter

Reply to Agnosticsherbet (Original post)

Mon Oct 31, 2016, 02:54 AM

Oct 2016

When you become successful.

Especially if you did it without screwing people over.

Being rich is a disadvantage in many ways. A lot of rich kids never have to learn how to do whatever it takes, because there is someone always there to bail them out.

If there is a will, there is a way. For some it is twice as hard, but look what a kid raised without a father with a middle name Hussein accomplished.

Just don't ever let anyone tell you that you can't "do it".

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Telling Poor, Smart Kids That All It Takes Is Hard Work to Be as Successful as Their Wealthy Peers [View all] Agnosticsherbet Oct 2016 OP

Business and family metroins Oct 2016 #1

The Horatio Alger myth needs to die. n/t duffyduff Oct 2016 #2

When You Come From Nothing It Is So Much Sweeter Yallow Oct 2016 #3

The article doesn't say they can't succeed. It says that it is not just a matter of hard work. Agnosticsherbet Oct 2016 #4

I love it when DUers preach the bullshit bootstrap delusion Orrex Oct 2016 #5

You Have An Odd Definition of "Disadvantage" ProfessorGAC Oct 2016 #6