While the meme has a good point, I try to put this in perspective.
Were your parents married?
Were they in good health?
Were you in good health as a child?
Did you live in a decent neighborhood as a child?
Are you white or east asian (Japan, China, Korea)?
If so, then you're better off then at least 50% of the populace when it comes to making a start of things. Throw a little hard work in there, some luck, maybe 4 years in the military maybe, and you're in the middle-class, better off than almost all of Africa, most of Asia, and every hood rat who isn't a successful rapper.
My dad, back in 1968, got a $5,000 kick-start for a small business from his dad. Not much, even accounting for inflation. He did very well until retirement.
I don't really have a solid opinion but by all accounts, it doesn't seem like he had anything handed to him. Adopted by a blue collar working class family, normal if small family home in the suburbs, worked hard.
While the meme has a good point, I try to put this in perspective.
Were your parents married? Were they in good health? Were you in good health as a child? Did you live in a decent neighborhood as a child? Are you white or east asian (Japan, China, Korea)?
If so, then you're better off then at least 50% of the populace when it comes to making a start of things. Throw a little hard work in there, some luck, maybe 4 years in the military maybe, and you're in the middle-class, better off than almost all of Africa, most of Asia, and every hood rat who isn't a successful rapper.
My dad, back in 1968, got a $5,000 kick-start for a small business from his dad. Not much, even accounting for inflation. He did very well until retirement.
What's your take on Steve jobs?
a man who actually went against the system, and built his own system.
bill gates should have died and steve should have lived. but that's not what happens in this fucked up plane of existence
I don't really have a solid opinion but by all accounts, it doesn't seem like he had anything handed to him. Adopted by a blue collar working class family, normal if small family home in the suburbs, worked hard.
Yeah he seemed like a real person maybe that's why he died