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    Kind of makes it easier if you can get a 60 million dollar loan from daddy like Trump did.

    Or if White Daddy owns an Emerald mine in Black South Africa, taken by force by military from Europe, like was the case for Elron Musk. So how was that fair to all South Africans?

    You are completely blind if you think there is an even playing field.

    Yes there may be the occasional anecdotes, like Jeff Bezos who weren’t born rich, but for them it requires both insanely hard work and luck.

    Anecdotes are not a statistic that proves anything. And the statistics clearly say that if you are rich, chances are overwhelming that you were born into it.

    Yet the rich have a sense of entitlement that they somehow deserve to be rich, but not the people who have to work two jobs, and never have a vacation. How do you arrive at that is a fair system?

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      Yes there may be the occasional anecdotes, like Jeff Bezos who weren’t born rich, but for them it requires both insanely hard work and luck.

      Wait… being rich requires hard work and luck? Too bad. No one can do that. So go to bed and keep begging for money.

      Anecdotes are not a statistic that proves anything.

      And what does? Your own interpretation of your own anecdotes that no one succeeded around you?

      And the statistics clearly say that if you are rich, chances are overwhelming that you were born into it.

      Having a better chance doesn’t mean others don’t have a chance. Do you even understand statistics?

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        Too bad. No one can do that.

        You don’t have any influence on luck. So yes, nobody can do that, that’s something you may or may not get.

        Having a better chance doesn’t mean others don’t have a chance.

        I never claimed any such thing, you are arguing a Straw Man.

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          You don’t have any influence on luck. So yes, nobody can do that, that’s something you may or may not get.

          So basically you don’t want to take the chance because there’s a chance you’ll fail. This is hilarious! No question you’re a failure.

          Here’s a life pro tip: If you don’t try, your success chance is 0%. If you do try, its larger than 0%. Simple math.

          You guys are really a broken generation! Social media broke you.

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            So basically you don’t want to take the chance because there’s a chance you’ll fail.

            I never wrote anything of the kind, you are arguing another straw man.

            You guys are really a broken generation! Social media broke you.

            Yet another straw man, that’s 3 in a row now. Tell me don’t you know what a straw man argument is, since you continue to use them?

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              Yes, of course. Everything is a straw man. Prove me wrong and stop saying… oh sorry, “hinting” that there’s no point in trying. More importantly, stop making that impression to people. We need more people to build new things and work hard. Not more losers in Starbucks serving coffee.