• SkyNTP@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Reality check: you don’t make boatloads of money for having useful skills everyone has (or should have). You make boat loads of money when you have useful skills that few people have.

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      6 months ago

      Reality Check: You make, or don’t, make boatloads on money based on your social skills, and your status at birth.

      You can literally map zip codes at birth to salary.

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      6 months ago

      Reality check: your relation to capital determines how many boat loads of money you make

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        6 months ago

        I just assumed it was some new refugee who landed on the flagship but nope, two year old account that’s been dodging .ml State Security somehow

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      6 months ago

      Or just be born into a rich family. Not sure that counts as a skill really.

      Been born into a rich family and then murdering your way to your inheritance without getting caught, now that’s a skill.

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      6 months ago

      The useful skill of being able to sack hundreds of people to make a few dollars for shareholders and still be able to sleep at night.

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      6 months ago

      That is definitely not true when everyone seems to have that one horror story where they have an incompetent coworker a level above them.