Yep everyone also thinks they’re exceptional, and so they’ll be the exception.
Comment on Why does the media print rags to riches stories?
Electric_Druid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
People are more likely to accept an inherently flawed economic system if they thing they have any chance of “beating” it. Stories like this, although actually very rare, help reinforce that narrative.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 month ago
MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I have had someone tell me that they’d rather live in an economic system “like we have in America” where people have a chance at rags to riches, than a system “like Germany, where the social safety net means the average person doesn’t have a chance at making it big.”
If anyone ever tells you wealthy people are intelligent, don’t believe them.