Comment on Really, ….. it's my fault they built a terrible system?

bob_wiley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• MorningstarCorndog@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You sound like somebody who had an incredibly fortunate childhood and you don’t understand anything about people who actually had to work to get where they are.

  You claim that your parents didn’t support you but they paid your college. It sounds like you got supported a lot.

  The people who really had to pull themselves up by their bootstraps are people like me. I quit a full ride scholarship to go back home and get a job to support my father and family after he broke his back at work and it took two years before his disability paid out.

  From there I was destitute and I’ve had to work my way back up to a point where I can afford to pay college out of pocket by myself while also affording all of my other expenses (like purchasing a house, and supporting my own family as an adult.) I’ve had to make serious sacrifices in my life.

  You really should be less judgmental about other people because you sound ignorant when you make those comments.

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  • bob_wiley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • MorningstarCorndog@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Actually, I was thinking about what I said and that was way more harsh than I should speak to anyone.

      I apologize for acting like a jerk. I appreciate what you said and hope you have a good day.

      I was being far too sensitive, and that’s on me.

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    • bouh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You started you adult life with education and without being indebted for 20 years? You are a privileged one. That’s just how it is. I am too. That’s just life, but you should have the honesty to recognise that most people don’t have this privilege. They can’t be conservative and plan their life because they don’t have the education or the resources (social or monetary) to do it.

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      • bob_wiley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I like to give people more credit than that. No one needs a formal education to make a budget or emergency fund. Having good examples going up helps significantly. But even without that, the internet, or a library, is an amazing resource to learn this kind of thing, where maybe someone can learn so they can teach it to their kids and stop the cycle. If we collectively throw up our hands and say no one can do anything about what they were born into and there is no upward mobility over the generations… then things can only get worse, because we’ve artificially closed off a main path for improvement.

        This is basically what my dad did, and what someone along the lines had to do in every family tree with some level of “privilege”. People can be this person on their own family tree. It doesn’t mean they’ll go from broke to billionaire in one step; that’s not the goal. The goal would just be to start creating some stability and solid footing so if/when some shit happens there is a little cushion and people aren’t at the whims of the currently government to try and save them, as that’s never going to happen. And to create some education and habits around this finances in the home, as most schools are teaching this stuff.

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• dodslaser@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Uphill in the snow both ways, and so on…

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• randomdeadguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Bless your heart

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