You Know what, If the poor actually made an effort to work hard, then Government would help them, but the problem is they don’t. It is rich people who are doing all the work, Rich people who are pushing our nation forward rich people who are the reason we have all our merchandise. The poor just cannot accept that they went wrong in life, so, what do they do? They beg for money, food, housing and expect that government just give it to them and no matter what they get, they are still ungreatful. Rich people, on the other hand realize that government is not totally Responsible for them so as a result they start working for themselves and look at were they are at, they are the developers of our economy. you were part of the government, which group would you like better.
And don’t complain about my education level, I have read about how our economy works, and have been able to form my own opinion.
Normally I'm not quite this frank: but this is the sort of post that only an incredibly privileged person who's never had to want for anything in their life (and who's got an ego bigger than the world) would make. Or perhaps also the view of an incredibly ignorant child who's never had to live in the real world.
To use as a counter example to this: I'll use the example of two folk in my class at uni. One of them worked as hard as he possibly could; taking all of the work experience possible to ensure the best possible future prospects and who got a first class degree. The other guy spent most of his time at uni drinking and having fun; and scraped to a 2.2. Guess who right now is the one in a stable, well-paying job and who is the one bouncing around from internship to internship.
Correct; its the second person with the good job; because he grew up in a rich family and his father had contacts which basically ensured that provided he got a 2.2 he had a good job already available to start right away; while the other guy grew up in a working class family in Glasgow and didn't have access to anything like the contacts or financial backing who had to work a hell of a lot harder to get where he got to. That's the thing that infuriates me about this awful, awful, awful take: it totally ignores the advantages that inherited wealth gives a young person in their early life: right from making it more likely that they have a stay-at-home parent since both don't need to work, through access to things like private education or private tutors to aid the kid and then later in life the ability to take un-paid internships and possibly also access to contacts in certain industry that make getting in the door much, much easier.
The idea that we live in a meritocracy is clearly wrong; and anyone who genuinely believes that is blind to the realities of this world.
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