#WealthInequality #EntitledBosses #UnfairAdvantages
It’s a frustrating reality that many people have to face – the unfair advantage of being born into wealth. When you have 100 times more money than the average person, it’s no surprise that success may come easier. This is the case for many individuals who, like my boss, have had the financial resources to start a business, make mistakes, and still come out on top without having to work as hard as others.
Let’s take a closer look at how wealth inequality plays a role in the success of individuals like my boss, and how it impacts the rest of us who don’t have the same advantages.
##The Unearned Privilege of Wealth
It’s not uncommon for those born into wealth to have access to resources that the average person can only dream of. In my boss’s case, he had the financial backing to start a business and make mistakes without facing the same consequences as someone without that kind of wealth. This unearned privilege allowed him to eventually make his business profitable, while others with more intelligence and capability may never have the chance to do the same.
##The Consequences of Incompetence
Despite my boss’s lack of intelligence and competence, his wealth has compensated for his shortcomings. He was able to make bad decision after bad decision, yet his financial resources allowed him to shrug off the consequences and continue on a path to success. This highlights the stark difference between those with wealth and those without – the ability to bounce back from failure and continue on a path to success.
##The Impact on Hardworking Individuals
For those who are 10 times smarter and more capable than my boss, yet lack the financial resources to invest or start a business, the outlook may seem dim. The reality is that without the privilege of wealth, hardworking individuals may never even own a fraction of what someone like my boss has. It’s a difficult pill to swallow, knowing that your hard work and intelligence may never be enough to compete with the advantages of wealth.
##The Frustration of Unfairness
It’s no wonder that many people feel disheartened and unmotivated to work in a system where the rich can succeed despite being substandard. When the wealthy can avoid hard work and still come out on top, it begs the question – why should the rest of us have to work so hard for far less? This frustration reflects the unfairness of wealth inequality and the impact it has on the motivation and drive of individuals who work tirelessly without the same advantages.
In conclusion, the story of my boss is just one example of how wealth inequality can greatly impact an individual’s success and the motivation of those who don’t have the same advantages. It’s a reality that many face, and one that prompts a critical examination of the systems in place that perpetuate this unfairness. The unfair advantage of wealth should not dictate the potential for success, and addressing this issue is crucial in creating a more equitable society for all.
The statistic is if your wealthy, you’re 33 times more likely to stay wealthy than being born poor and having the social mobility to move up.
Why are you working for him? You know you have one life, right?
Same thing here in the UK 🇬🇧
If you’re born into a ‘working class’ family the odds are heavily stacked against you.
I can now understand why people give up on the system and claim benefits to be honest.
Work your ass hard, so your children can live easier.
Don’t be mad you didn’t win the birth lottery.
Yep. Capitalism sucks. It isn’t some meritocratic “free market”, it’s a system that favors rich people because rich people wrote the laws. Private ownership of business shouldn’t be a thing.
Everyone getting the same high quality education, access to life’s requirements, and making an economy that doesn’t require ecological catastrophe and human exploitation *should* be a thing. Actual democracy *should* be a thing.
We get there by buddying up with fellow workers, making demands, making direct action on those demands, and voting in the people least likely to kill us.
why hate him tho. It isn’t his fault. You just seem jealous move on I think you won’t be happy working on him I can feel it’s eating your soul
If this is really your mindset, good luck getting through life without being bitter and miserable. Life is not fair from the day we are born and to compare yourself to someone like that will just leave you with resentment.
Reporting plagiarism to his university is such a sad move
This is the first good post I’ve seen on this sub
Our nation values wealth, as since his wealth will get him the spotlight, he’ll tell everyone his wealth was built upon his education and hard work, leaving out the part about his wealth and success being built on the backs of his workers. Of course, there’ll be no spotlight on any of the workers.
The media is owned by the wealthy (who became wealthy from hard work and dedication), who will highlight the story.
Enough if the general public will believe this, thereby making the story effectively true.
Seriously, so what?
Different people have different advantages and disadvantages.
If you’re so much smarter than him, and won’t make any mistakes like he did, why don’t you start your own business?
You might not be able to grow as fast without the money to back you but, since you will make zero mistakes, you should do well in time!
I don’t remember who said it: “How many Einsteins have died in the cotton fields?”
i mean. you can look at it another way to.
You as a person have tasks and goals. in order to achieve these you hire help. Good help that costs money and is smarter then you, because why else would you hire them?
The failures can be given to incompitance or ignorence. Did he not listen, or did nobody realize, this is a bigger factor imo.
I don’t want to go to deep into it, but basicly, we don’t all play this game on the same difficulty. Its no newsflash as you are on this sub that this game is rigged form the start. But the guy is just playing the hand he got. (and what most likely is excpected)
The basic story to every fortune.
Success is not measured by how much money you make, but by how far you have come. This man is not successful, you might even be able to debate that he is highly unsuccessful.
He is however rich, and like others pointed out, going from immense wealth to poverty is very unlikely in the current economic format of the world.
>When I checked it in the Uni library it turned out that like 2/3 of “his” thesis were plagiarised. So I reported this to University – but thats another story.
Very not nice from you tho, being a spy isn’t cool.
I understand you might be angry/upset but being born rich is a luck that everybody would want , me included.
Being a spy to each other is what fascism was built on.
Pure meritocracy would be bad…but would be so much better than what we have
That Uni story is perhaps the most bitter thing I’ve read in a while, I can’t imagine having that much hatred for someone just because you deem them to be unworthy of their position in life.
Would it be better that he didn’t start a business and employ a bunch of people? Like staying at home and just living off the interest.
The original owner of my company is kinda opposite. I mean, I think he may have been well off (no idea of net worth of family), but if you interacted with the guy it was very obvious that a ton of the company’s success was due to his personality and hard work. Smart too and had charisma and knew how to interact with others.
Success can be had by all types of people I guess.
I’m super curious about the story of “his” thesis.
It appears that the current capitalist / conservative agenda is to recreate a modern version of feudism with a few wealthy owners and billions of workers in poverty.
People with a $5 million net worth are not the problem. They are not the reason that your life is hard. We should be taking a suit with the people that have a $5 billion net worth. At least in today’s money 5 million net worth is kind of the middle class. It’s not the average but you’re not living large with $5 million.
Life isnt fair, toughen up
The trick with those is to introduce them to a problem where the solution is throwing money in a direction you’ve already set up a net in.
How the fuck did his professors not discovered it was plagiarized? I get a sinking feeling that the department was into it.
This is the intelligence fallacy. How smart you are does not mean that you deserve a better life of that you create more value in society.
I just did my annual employee reviews and one of my employees is extremely intelligent. He runs a non revenue driving department and tells me every hear his angry he is that “stupid” people are promoted and he isn’t.
Well, the sales people pays your and everyone else’s salary. Whether they are in Mensa holds no bearing on how well they do their jobs
Let me tell you a story.
I come from a poor country but for whatever reason the government prioritized math over anything else so in high school we would be seeing insane hard algebra and math classes. There were math academies, math competitions and everything was math. Regionally we would win math competitions often and worldwide we would be right behind Japan and China. We had good years with very very smart kids giving the Asian kids a run for their money.
After they turn 18, they’d go to college. After college no job even thou they were super smart.
One time I hired an international math champion to help me paint my home for $20 a day. Guy could have been working at NASA if he was born in the US, now he is helping me (someone as dumb as a rock) paint my home.
It’s all about opportunities + money. Just opportunities without money you won’t do much
The richer gets richer and the poor get poorer. Because he had money, he can afford to fail but for the majority of us, one financial mistake, it will be the end for us. Well, if there is any solace, is that he and all rich people can’t take the money when they pass away. They must leave it behind.
And as for us, we should learn to be content with what we have or we will be resentful, hateful and bitter. A lot of us, are buying things that continue to make the rich richer and us poorer. We buy expensive high end vehicles. Average car payment in America is over $700 per month and it’s not that we are buying smaller economical cars; we want the SUV with all the bells and whistles. How will this make us rich or at least comfortable in life?
https://money.com/average-car-payment-record-high/
I could go on but I hope you catch my drift. We can be richer if we decide to buy within our means and not comparing ourselves to others. It will really help us.
This comes off as very jealous.
The reason why so many founders come from wealthy families is this. Aside from just the basics (VC firms want to see family and friend rounds before they’ll give you a cent), having rich parents **buys you lots of chances**.
If you’re poor and from the ghetto, you get maybe one chance. Get unlucky, and get arrested, or fuck up one month in school – no scholarship, you don’t get a degree. But if you’re middle class or above, you can fuck around for years, then get serious in college and get a degree, no problem. Because your parents can afford to help you.
With business, it’s the same thing, just with higher costs. Especially in tech and other industries, the biggest cost to starting a business isn’t supplies. It’s being able to keep yourself fed and housed while you start it. And if you can fall back on your parents while you do so and figure it out, you’ve got a huge advantage over a competitor that has to work all day making someone else rich then start their business at night.
Social connectivity and communication is > intelligence when it involves business. 80% of autistic ppl were unemployed in 2023. A lot of autistic ppl are brilliant but have no social skills. That should tell you all you need to know.
No one has ever wanted to work. That’s why they have to bribe us with money.
To me complaining about this is kinda stupid
Life isn’t fair we all know that , sure, we should aspire to level the field but that won’t ever stop the fact that one guy who never had to do anything has it all .
Working will never make you a millionaire and that’s ok, the problem is that working should be enough to make you live a proper life .
Lol what is this? Ypu went to your bosses university to look up their thesis? Are you in college too?
My first year of college I went to a college with rich but smart kids. My last 3 years I went to a college with even richer kids but a lot of them were really dumb. It was really frustrating after the first year realizing that these idiots would someday be running companies just because they had money and knew other people with money.
Tax the rich. At least try it before we eat them.
Some people are born tall, born with good looks, great intelligence, incredible athletic ability, musical talent, comedic talent, a quick wit, reading stamina, math ability, elite spatial reasoning, etc. Any one of those things can make you incredibly successful. And some people are the children of Presidents, Senators, Governors, Prime Ministers, Mayors, diplomats, party officials, commissars, etc. And some are born rich. Why focus on the rich part of it exclusively, as if that’s the only benefit not deserved, as if an egalitarian society would naturally exist if wealth were somehow evenly distributed?
Life isn’t fair
Is everyone on here a space alien just visiting Earth for the space time or 12 years old?
Rich parents that give money to their kids – That makes things pretty easy for the kid!
No shit. That’s how things have been since LITERALLY the entire existence of humans. If this was 9000 years ago and my parents had 500 sheep and when I got married, they gave me 100, that would make things easier for me compared to someone that gets no sheep from their parents.
Also EVERYONE does this. You would do it too. No one with money has kids and thinks “Fuck my kids. I could send them to good schools and we could live in a nice area, and I could help them get a good job, but NAH!”