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alarimer

(17,146 posts)
17. If you don't get rich, it's your own damn fault.
Tue Jan 26, 2016, 12:52 PM
Jan 2016

Those seemingly contradictory philosophies are actually not all that contradictory. Poor people are poor through their own actions. They are defective people (in other words, not as equal) because they could not pull themselves up.

This philosophy also ignores the giant elephant in the room, which is that NO ONE actually succeeds entirely on their own.

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