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SeLf MaDe
riiiight. eyeroll
Lol that's always BS.
And yet journalists continue to use it to describe the rich.
sigh
The journalists who write op-eds that gush about rich people are often rich people (or are the spouses of wealthy individuals).
You understand that global economic stability relies on people gambling their lives on a dream, right? Well, that and pure willful ignorance.
What would the journalists do? Try to explain that to people, and that nobody has figured out a way to fix it yet?
It'd be a start at least.
There are a few independent news sources that do this tho. They just don't get the traffic MSM does.
Hey man it was me that took my dadβs $6m loan. It was also me that showed up to the interview with the bank manager he set up who is also a close friend of his. And it was me that signed the papers.
I worked my ass off to get to where I am today. None of which would have been possible without all the hard work I had to do! What a risk I took!
So yeah, self made millionaires totally exist! Iβm living proof.
Unless you printed the money yourself you're not "self made" you got your money from other people. To get that money you depended on a society that is wealthy enough and connected enough to be capable of giving you millions of dollars in exchange for whatever you're selling. Most of that capacity, both in baseline social wealth (health, education, and stability) is paid for through taxes. TAX THE RICH UNTIL THEY PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE.