You can say that from the vantage point of being a highly paid tech worker. The world is your oyster and so on.
People who are less fortunate are well, less fortunate. They have less of everything to fight for their future.
Don't get me wrong, I am all about self education and self empowerment and being able to improve their lot in life, but system problems require system solutions.
>People who are less fortunate are well, less fortunate.
I agree. That's why I don't want the government to forbid them from taking a job that they want by setting a minimum wage. Cutting out the bottom of the labor market doesn't help poor people.
The "system problems" are fictitious and a way to distance the locus of responsibility away from the individuals actually responsible. I wasn't born a tech worker.
And the attitude that they have to "fight" for it is wrong and antisocial. They have to build it.
To be able to say that you're able to bootstrap all your way to tech worker is often determined by where you're born, or if you immigrated to a certain country.
It's never always your initiative that makes things happens.
And the attitude that they have to "fight" for it is wrong and antisocial. They have to build it.
So I misspoken.
Doing valuable and important things and getting paid well isn't necessarily the same thing. The market isn't the end all be all determining the value of your work.
Gold is priced more money than water, and gold is a useless trinket compared to water.
People who are less fortunate are well, less fortunate. They have less of everything to fight for their future.
Don't get me wrong, I am all about self education and self empowerment and being able to improve their lot in life, but system problems require system solutions.