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minus-squareSkyNTP@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up21arrow-down16·8 days agoReality check: you don’t make boatloads of money for having useful skills everyone has (or should have). You make boat loads of money when you have useful skills that few people have.
minus-squareRooster326@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up44arrow-down3·edit-28 days agoReality Check: You make, or don’t, make boatloads on money based on your social skills, and your status at birth. You can literally map zip codes at birth to salary.
minus-squaregray@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down1·8 days agoReality check: your relation to capital determines how many boat loads of money you make
minus-squaredr_robotBones@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down1·8 days agoThe useful skill of being born rich so you could go to an Ivy League School.
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down2·8 days agoOr just be born into a rich family. Not sure that counts as a skill really. Been born into a rich family and then murdering your way to your inheritance without getting caught, now that’s a skill.
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 days agoThe useful skill of being able to sack hundreds of people to make a few dollars for shareholders and still be able to sleep at night.
minus-squaredependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 days agoSo you believe we live in a meritocracy? I find that staggering at this point.
minus-squareTacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agowhat illiterate upvoted this grift?
minus-squaredependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 days ago20 upvotes and 16 downvotes. Crazy work.
Reality check: you don’t make boatloads of money for having useful skills everyone has (or should have). You make boat loads of money when you have useful skills that few people have.
Reality Check: You make, or don’t, make boatloads on money based on your social skills, and your status at birth.
You can literally map zip codes at birth to salary.
Reality check: your relation to capital determines how many boat loads of money you make
The useful skill of being born rich so you could go to an Ivy League School.
Or just be born into a rich family. Not sure that counts as a skill really.
Been born into a rich family and then murdering your way to your inheritance without getting caught, now that’s a skill.
The useful skill of being able to sack hundreds of people to make a few dollars for shareholders and still be able to sleep at night.
So you believe we live in a meritocracy? I find that staggering at this point.
what illiterate upvoted this grift?
20 upvotes and 16 downvotes. Crazy work.