If hard work were sufficient to be "well-off" however one defines that (I start with "not having to worry about where the rent check is coming from"), my mom would have had a much easier time with me and my sister.
No, she didn't go to college. She was (and is) a secretary: a shitty, thankless job. There were times when she had a second job at the local craft supply store two or three nights a week to make ends meet.
I don't associate "hard work" with "went to college": that's classist. Janitors do a lot harder work (physically) than CEOs, and without janitors, the CEOs would have a really nasty office (or force their secretaries to clean it), but the CEO is "more important" than the janitor, apparently because he went to college or something and earns $60,000 an hour. Or more.
Nobody fucking merits $60,000 an hour. (that got tangential, there.)
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If hard work were sufficient to be "well-off" however one defines that (I start with "not having to worry about where the rent check is coming from"), my mom would have had a much easier time with me and my sister.
No, she didn't go to college. She was (and is) a secretary: a shitty, thankless job. There were times when she had a second job at the local craft supply store two or three nights a week to make ends meet.
I don't associate "hard work" with "went to college": that's classist. Janitors do a lot harder work (physically) than CEOs, and without janitors, the CEOs would have a really nasty office (or force their secretaries to clean it), but the CEO is "more important" than the janitor, apparently because he went to college or something and earns $60,000 an hour. Or more.
Nobody fucking merits $60,000 an hour.
(that got tangential, there.)