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Luck is still most important thing in life
| https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610395/if-youre-so-smart-why-arent-you-rich-turns-out-its-just-chance/
| Of course a faint but really important factor too: born well.
Otherwise you just do not even have the means to hold on to your luck if it presents itself.
| The „american dream“ was always a lie to justify and glorify exploitation and fool the exploited masses about their individual chances. „Everyone can make it“ is not equal to „All can make it“. In the end the wallet of your parents is the most important thing, besides having insanely luck at doing the right thing at the time and the right place. Which also is tied to where you are born and by whom.
| American dream is just a meme. Created in the '60s, shone for at most 10 years because of the steroids of propaganda. Who falls for such nonsense is mentally deficient.
| Never understood the big deal with the whole "american dream" bc that place is a mess, yet i know a lot of folks that moved there or wanted to move there bc of it
| >>176261
„Everyone lives free according to his needs and his capabilities.“
The „american dream“ is an ideal which stands in contradiction to the policy of the people that invented it.
„From dishwasher to millionaire“ only works under very special and seldom circumstances, like the education reforms in reaction to the Sputnik-shock combined with the rise of semiconductor technology. People that „made it“ out of the garage to the top are closing the doors they went through.
| >>176261
The usual case is becoming millionaire by having millionaire parents. I doubt that ppl like Trump ever washed a dish once in his life.
| The American dream wasn't "hobos will become millionaires!" It was "Come to America, you and your family can have a good life."
| >#176296 that what it was. Now sadly we are to busy fighting each other to even have a good life. While those millionaires sit up on their seat. Making rules that everyone has to follow that ether benefit them, drive more fighting in between people, or restricts our rights so we, the people get left behind the rest of the world.
| >>176296
You mean: „Bigot protestants and crimnal white people that no one want to have in Europe, come to america, grab land from the natives and buy some black slaves that do the work for you.“
| It doesn't have to be this way. GENERAL STRIKE NOW.
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| MIT Tech Review reports on a new study which used computer model to analyze wealth distribution in society. It concludes that the majority of riches do not result from talent, intelligence or hard work - but luck. Those who succeed most in modern society are born well and experience several 'lucky events' which they exploit, but are of mediocre talent.