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I did exactly what adults told me when I was young and I did a good study, own a nice house and car. Life is pretty good if you follow the directions boomers set out for you. Im glad I was born in a time in which the internet was starting to develop as it granted me opportunities to excel in something and be my best self.
I pity folks that think society is against them. Life must really suck.
It’s almost as if life is different for everyone. I tried to do exactly what the adults told me, except I grew up poor with learning disabilities and got booted out of the house at 18, therefore I do not get to have the “good life”?
Now I’m 38 with 2 kids and way too much student debt just to be able to even get the slightest leg up and be able to start a career. I will never own a home and I will not retire, even though I did everything the boomers set out for me.
Screw your pity, no one wants it. Society is against them and it is against you too, you’re just too blinded by your “good life” to see it so you’ll contribute to making it worse instead.
I had no parents, I have autism and scoliosis. I didnt take a study but decided to work for a furniture maker. Im quite literally a socially low functioning autistic man. My skincolor doesn’t help either.
Lived in crappy junkie apartment for years before I could afford anything better.
Took me around 7 years but I saved up and build my own business.
Zero loans (unless you count company debt which is normal).
Life isnt fair and you picked the bad choices overall. And yes people will judge on that.
I work hard, and I hate it when people tell me society is against them, as if I got “lucky” and society didnt offer me the same hardships.
Its quite frankly the biggest insult you can give a man, just so you know.
You shouldn’t have had to live without to get where you wanted to be, that’s the point. We can and should make life more fair.
IIRC there was study a while back that debunked the idea that people get more conservative as they age. It turned out that rich people with no morals live longer, because they’re entirely self interested, and being entirely self interested they can afford healthcare, thus living longer than non-conservatives on average.
Thats gotta be like 85 vs 84.5. I can’t imagine dying earlier makes that much difference
those are some funny numbers. Where’d you get them? Do you really think everyone’s living to 85? most people die in their seventies. The difference in life expectancy for those in the bottom economic bracket vs the top bracket is 15 years for men and 10 years for women.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/1/9/16860994/life-expectancy-us-income-inequality
I got them from my ass. But googling around, seems once you get past infancy, your life expectancy goes way up, but heavily depends on the site. Hell, I’m only 28 and I’m supposed to live to 99 years old according to one of them.
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rich people with no morals live longer, because they’re entirely self interested, and being entirely self interested they can afford healthcare, thus living longer than non-conservatives on average.
From a philosophical point of view, everyone with absolutely no exception is “self interested.” I believe the idea you’re talking about is whether bettering the lives of other has been incorporated in your identity at a young age making your self-interest ultimately beneficial for others. It’s a complex topic, but the idea is that you don’t really truly do anything for others, ever, but if someone convinced you that if you don’t do good by others, then you should be ashamed or that if you do, you’re a better person, then you do good for others for your own sake, to view yourself in a better light.
I’m a bit confused about your comment though. Are you arguing that the study found that rich people skew the data because of their longer life? If so, I find that hard to believe given the proportion of “rich people,” and the consequently negligible ability to statistically skew a population if it were actually randomly sampled.