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Quite unbelievable (files.mastodon.social)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’m not sure there’s a person who really believes both of these. I think people who believe premise one actually believe this to be a generally true statement about people (or a generally true statement about some racial subset of people) rather than a statement about all people. This dovetails nicely with their love of billionaires due to them being “hard workers” because it shows the billionaire is somewhat unique and better than most people in that regard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah the thought process goes:

If you work hard, you'll succeed.
Billionaires must have worked hard to become billionaires.
Poor people must be lazy because if they worked hard they wouldn't be poor.
Give a hard worker a billion dollars and they'll keep working, because they're a hard worker.
Give a lazy person basic needs and why would they work again? They're lazy.