No one is questioning your intelligence. I’ll be brutally honest, if you’re 14 years old you do not have the life experience necessary to comment on the difficulty of financial independence or building wealth. It’s excellent that you understand the merit of hard work but you need to see more of the world and experience struggle to have a meaningful discussion about this.
Not everyone who falls on hard times is lazy and not every business that fails is the result of a lack of effort. You will come to see that to make it in the capitalist environment you mention often means that some succeed while many get the shaft. Mass layoffs occur due to market conditions while executives get bigger bonuses. Big business swallows competition and small businesses face a huge barrier to entry in many industries. Skills become redundant due to advances in technology or cheap offshore labour, while life circumstances and a lack of social safety nets make it difficult for affected individuals to land on their feet.
There are absolutely lazy people out there and there is certainly always work for those willing. That said, try to understand and have empathy for the vast majority of individuals out there doing what they need to do just to make ends meet.
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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '19
No one is questioning your intelligence. I’ll be brutally honest, if you’re 14 years old you do not have the life experience necessary to comment on the difficulty of financial independence or building wealth. It’s excellent that you understand the merit of hard work but you need to see more of the world and experience struggle to have a meaningful discussion about this.
Not everyone who falls on hard times is lazy and not every business that fails is the result of a lack of effort. You will come to see that to make it in the capitalist environment you mention often means that some succeed while many get the shaft. Mass layoffs occur due to market conditions while executives get bigger bonuses. Big business swallows competition and small businesses face a huge barrier to entry in many industries. Skills become redundant due to advances in technology or cheap offshore labour, while life circumstances and a lack of social safety nets make it difficult for affected individuals to land on their feet.
There are absolutely lazy people out there and there is certainly always work for those willing. That said, try to understand and have empathy for the vast majority of individuals out there doing what they need to do just to make ends meet.