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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Have you considered that people who get rich are just better than you? Obviously other factors are at play too, but anybody who's launched themselves up a tier in wealth usually are brilliant, bold risk takers, work super hard, and create way more value for the world than you do.
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Other John
@GrubHooligan
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@Aella_Girl
To accept that this is true would mean looking at the racial and gender disparities in social mobility and thinking, "Well I guess white men are just smarter and work harder!" If you acknowledge the numerous other factors in play, the argument falls apart pretty quick.
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Other John
@GrubHooligan
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@Aella_Girl
Right. And "If you acknowledge the numerous other factors in play, the argument falls apart pretty quick." You can't just ignore all that context and say, "Okay, but aside from all of that, this classist, white supremacist, patriarchal argument is SPOT ON!"
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