“Anyone who had/has rich parents”.
Worked my ass off moving up through food industry - from retail to operations manager of a manufacturing plant.
Didn’t get rich until my folks gave me a 6-figure loan to start my own business, with an interest rate so low+generous it was basically free money. That enabled us to take risks in the first 2 years that we never would have attempted otherwise. Some of those paid off.
Hell I wouldn’t have been able to grind out 65+hr weeks in my mid-twenties getting experience if I didn’t have such a great support system, largely enabled due to not having to truly worry about bills or food until I “got on my own feet”.
Yeah, I put work in. But I could’ve done the exact same amount of effort and made many times less money, essentially guaranteed if not for randomly being born to the right situation.
Behind every early retired person is someone who gave them some kind of resource most others likely will never have access to.
Thanks for sharing some of your story and acknowledging an important aspect of your success.
Do you have any plans to use your position to help change the system (political, educational or otherwise)?
Sure!
No serious plans. We’ve currently been focused on our kids first, but are donating time to local food banks and have donated money to some proposed measures and our local Blanchet House.
We aren’t well off enough that pursuing the next step in what people normally put donated time towards is an option; just our 5-10% of our time and money is a lot larger than it was before we hit this point. Neither of us have serious plans to grind for more money again, so this likely wont change.
6 figure salary and still on Lemmy 😂
Lemmy’s primary demographic is like, developers/engineers who get paid enough to spend most of the day doing shit other than work and still live comfortably. (And Redditors that decided they were too cool for closed-source corporate malware.)
Can’t even argue with that to be honest
6 figure loan, not salary.
Im not reading properly if I’m not paid six figures tbh
To be fair, this is not correct, instead the last one should read “any kid who had rich parents”
Goddamn if that doesn’t check out.
A good example for this is Tommy Wiseau (there are a dozen like him). He is dumb and did a bad movie. But he had the money to keep filming and the crew stayed because they need their paycheck. He thrown a huge amount in aggressive advertising. Years later he is making money without doing anything.
I dunno, I think he might have figured out how to bottle lightning because he had another show after The Room that was the same kind of “so bad it’s good” as The Room was. He’d have to be pretty delusional to think he was making high art after the way The Room was received, so to realize what people liked about his art (assuming he didn’t know that in the first place) and not immediately just churning out garbage instead tells me he does have talent. Entertainingly bad is a hard line to deliberately walk.
Plus there’s no evidence he was born into money. Maybe a bunch fell out of a plane with him.
The Tim & Eric episode he directed was wild even by Tim & Eric standards.
I’m smart and had middle class parents and went into the family profession. I have a friend who’s smart as hell, but had unsupportive and poor parents, she’s just learned she’s a perfect match for a variety of office work, as well as learning that given her talents and what she likes there’s a well paid and respected profession that she could do well in. When I was her age I had my degree and was working in my field for middle class pay.
I’ve been coming to harsh understanding of how deep inter generational wealth and class goes through knowing her
I don’t have rich parents nor am I rich myself but I get by and are more or less content with my finances. My secret was getting a training for a job where I work with my hands and now people that don’t want to get their hands dirty pay me a good amount of money to do it for them. I also don’t need to worry about AI/automation taking my job.
The dumbest kid is riding the car
The smartest kid in school is much more likely to have a good job
Unless the smartest kid in school also has untreated mental health problems. Like, you know, a lot of people on the Internet.
I said more likely, not guaranteed. His chance of having an untreated mental health problem is around the same as anyone else, around 25%, roughly
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Intergenerational wealth is a major determinant for an individual’s wealth.
Do you want to know more?
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/akillewald/files/generations_of_advantage.pdf
Page 23 is the conclusion, start there.
But death tax!11
Copitalism
I believe he’s just upset that he’s in this image
take a guess
The overweight guy ordering two large cokes?
*two large diet cokes
No a reality . I have a very conformable situation due to my family and I can confirm I will never make more money in my life that whaty heritage will. That s fucking sad
Observe, class. Bottom third of the image. You are allowed to look and ask questions in a calm and respectful manner to the subject of the meme, but no flash photography and no snickering in the back or I’ll beat you with a sack of oranges
