Telling Poor, Smart Kids That All It Takes Is Hard Work to Be as Successful as Their Wealthy Peers

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5. I love it when DUers preach the bullshit bootstrap delusion

All the hard work in the world can be easily and irrevocably undone by the stroke of a pen by some eight-figure executive somewhere, and the executive will probably land a seven-figure bonus for doing it. To pretend otherwise is insulting.

Being rich is a disadvantage in many ways.

Happily, that "disadvantage" is entirely voluntary and easily overcome. A rich person enjoys the luxury of choosing to abandon that wealth in order to reap the myriad benefits of poverty, but the impoverished person sure as hell doesn't have the option to abandon poverty.


You've resorted to the Libertarian trick of citing an extreme, anomalous outlier as proof that the system "works," which is exactly like saying that Powerball will make us all rich because it made that one lucky ticket-buyer rich.