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Originally Posted by aka123
You put ridiculously amount of importance for personal skills. Money comes through transactions and in bigger scale from a thing called as economy. If you were some chicken shit farmers in the middle of nowhere with just your chickens, your ambitions would be limited by your chickens breeding pace. Just like you now live in a environment that sets the frame for all your life.
We have ceilings like productivity, resources, demand and so on. Those are not fixed, but for most of us they are more or less fixed, as our influence to those is very little.
There is just "so much" to divide per moment.
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So what do you put "importance" on? Factors surrounding people that are out of their control?
Got news for you...SOME people (the exceptional ones that do make it) don't stay in the midwest being farmers. They take a leap of faith and go where opportunity is.
I never said it was for most people.
As you said...99.9% of people never have and never will have what it takes to step up and do something like that.
Wealth isn't a pie with just "so much to divide". I just don't believe that. I've seen it with my own eyes when my uneducated dirt poor grandfather became a multi-millionaire by...ironically...farming! (citrus industry in Fla.)
And I myself have made a few million dollars since I entered the adult industry in the mid 1990's. Before that, I was a professional musician lucky to make a couple hundred bucks a week.
When I decided that my days as a "rock star" were over...I turned my attention to being successful.
And within a couple of years I was making more money than all the people I went to high school with who had been working on careers for 20 years.
I know what you're saying...and yes, it will hold back average or uninspired people (talking about the United States...not some shithole thirdworld country). But the OPPORTUNITY is out there.
Nobody is stuck in a shithole town working a nowhere job.
Anybody can take the biggest chance of their lives and LEAVE that shithole and put their ass on the line. And IF they have what it takes...they can make it.
Most don't. That's always been true. And always will be.