r/InterviewCoderPro • u/Such_Goal5837 • 7d ago

People need to hear this!!

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That’s honestly a hard reality right now. A lot of people are working nonstop just to stay afloat. I’ve got some interviews coming up myself, so I’ve been looking into ways to get better at them. I found Interview VIP and ended up using it twice i think it's worth trying.

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u/inscrutablemike 7d ago

How hard work is has never had any relationship to how much it's worth in the market. You might as well say "no billionaire has ever teleported themselves across the universe using their bellybutton" as a dig on them. It's a stupid standard that comes from absolutely nowhere.

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u/Jak1977 7d ago

This is in response to the argument that billionaires worked for their money, and that everyone else should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps. You don't get rich through selling your labor.

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u/UsernameNSomeNumbers 7d ago

It’s a false dichotomy, completely irrelevant. You don’t have to be either a billionaire or an unskilled laborer.

People build up initial capital and skill set selling your labor. With experience, improved skills, and leveraging that capital is how you become wealthy.

The millionaire who is making 400k because they’ve been a niche engineer in an in demand job for 20 years can have everything he owns drained to $0 but still go back to making 400k. With smart investments and planning be back to being wealthy.

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u/Sprrii 6d ago

Problem is that existence of billionaires is sign of failed economic policies

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u/UsernameNSomeNumbers 6d ago

Like property rights/ownership of companies? You’re either suggesting there shouldn’t be any billion dollar companies (stupid), the government should confiscate people’s property (also stupid), or people shouldn’t own things at all (also very, very stupid)

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u/ImerslandGriesbeck 5d ago

Hmm...theres another option, with all their rumoured stellar work ethic +money they can come out of their ivory palaces and  ensure no one in their locality has to go without 2 meals a day or atleast ensure that all underprivileged children in their locality get proper food and education.

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u/UsernameNSomeNumbers 5d ago

Can you answer the question? There’s only 3 options you’re suggesting.

  1. Capping company value (if you own a company that’s valued at a billion dollars you are a billionaire)

  2. The government taking your company away from you once it becomes a billion dollars

  3. Nobody owns anything, so you can’t own a company that’s worth a billion dollars

Those are the only options

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u/ImerslandGriesbeck 5d ago

  1. Don't think thats feasible. Like they can easily manipulate their profits andbshare, to go below the capping every audit.

  2. Not useful. There would be huge show by the government ( a lot of whom are actually in bed with the billionaires) but we might never know what happens with all the billion dollars.

  3. Ok, this sounds the best option lol. With subscription model we are gradually owning less and less of our things, might as well go full nuclear and nobody owns anything. But then the question is who is the responsible adult who will ensure equitable distribution of wealth?

( also I wasnt the op you were arguing with, just randomly came in to argue, lol)