I hope this fuckwad loses his job when there's nothing else out there and his skillset is obsolete so he can understand "poor"
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1/2 Unpopular opinion incoming: Actually, I'd love to hear your suggestion on what to do in this scenario - because he did lose his job, based on the research done by @paleprincess and her comment below.
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$100 says he isn't sitting on his ass and whining about his obsolete skillset, because he was an investor - its the least applicable skillset on the face of the earth. It's literally useless for anything but: investing.
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$100 says he got off his ass and figured something out. Got another job. Applied for jobs he wasn't 'qualified for', or started investing privately. Either way, I bet you he's doing something.
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Anyone wanna take me up on this bet? I haven't done any research and idk who this dude is, so I could be wrong. But I'm not. His point is perfectly valid. If you're poor, you figure it the fuck out, because nobody is going to do it for you. That or die. When it comes down to that choice, people tend to figure things out.
2/2 Poverty is a choice. Whine, bitch, moan, complain, bury me in your excuses, but it's still true. I'm not talking about malnourished, uneducated African child who never even had a fair shot, but if you live in North-America, Western-Europe, Australia/NZ, developed Asia, you have even half, or a complete secondary-school education, the world is your oyster. You can find a job, and make quick money, EASILY.
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Your disbelief, or your weak, pathetic, self-victimizing arguments don't change that.
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I understand poor. I have been poor. I started poor, and was raised poor. I left university, with my degree incomplete, with $19000 in student debt, a $55,000 car with 11 days of insurance left on it, and $250 in the bank. I insured my car for 1 more month, filled it with gas and took my then gf for dinner and broke up with her because she'd gotten all distant on me. Then I had $17 left in the bank.
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I made a choice. I am not poor anymore. I never will be again.
False. In some places this may be true, but it isn't true everywhere or for everyone. I have a high school diploma and some college and I struggled to even get an interview for months.
I have a job now, and I haven't been poor because I am lucky enough to have had money from family. But that isn't the case for everyone. Being poor is not a choice for many many people who are poor.
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I’m not debating it with you. It’s false for you specifically because you lack the drive to get ahead and succeed. This is literally like trying to explain the concept of 0 to someone who can only see 1.
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I have high school and some college and I’ve never NOT had multiple offers on the table at any given time. I’ve been fired, “let go”, quit jobs, failed at jobs and just left them, and I’ve always had opportunities.
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You and I will never agree, but one of us is right and one of us is wrong.
There is a very real possibility that you live in a place with better opportunities. You may have picked up more useful job skills along the way. The truth is the worst thing I ever did for my ability to get a job was stop working for a while. I needed it for my mental health, but finding a job with gaps in your work history is hard.
Also, and this is important: Racism and Sexism definitely still exist in the work place. If you are an urban white male with no criminal record there is a good chance you can find a job, but the same does not apply if you are a black woman in a little town in the sticks. Not if that town is primarily white people.
And not of that accounts for the many many disorders that make getting a job harder.
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It’s very possible. So move? I spent 3 years living out of a suitcase on the road- so that I don’t have to do it again. I did that alongside almost 200-300 other young people making the same sacrifices to get ahead.
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I have picked up more useful skills- I looked around at the world around me, found something that was lacking and that I could be great at. I have worked like a slave- almost literally- for now nearly 7 years to develop the skill.
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I’m male, but an immigrant of colour. And I can tell you being male is a disadvantage in my predominantly female office.
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I get what you’re saying, but it’s usually not that complicated. People are, and allow themselves to be weak, and thus fail to capitalize on the opportunities given to them.
His name is Todd Wilemon and he actually got fired from the New York Stock Exchange for doing this interview. He tried suing them for $150,000, but ended up dropping the suit. My obsessive need to know things strikes again.
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He got fired because this was bad publicity - not because he was wrong.
Never said why he got fired, although I believe it said something about the higher ups not liking that he went on a left leaning show and that he end up mocking the 1%. If you have these opinions, there are good and bad ways to share them. Using the words he did on The Daily Show was one of the bad ways.
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$100 says he isn't sitting on his ass and whining about his obsolete skillset, because he was an investor - its the least applicable skillset on the face of the earth. It's literally useless for anything but: investing.
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$100 says he got off his ass and figured something out. Got another job. Applied for jobs he wasn't 'qualified for', or started investing privately. Either way, I bet you he's doing something.
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Anyone wanna take me up on this bet? I haven't done any research and idk who this dude is, so I could be wrong. But I'm not. His point is perfectly valid. If you're poor, you figure it the fuck out, because nobody is going to do it for you. That or die. When it comes down to that choice, people tend to figure things out.
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Your disbelief, or your weak, pathetic, self-victimizing arguments don't change that.
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I understand poor. I have been poor. I started poor, and was raised poor. I left university, with my degree incomplete, with $19000 in student debt, a $55,000 car with 11 days of insurance left on it, and $250 in the bank. I insured my car for 1 more month, filled it with gas and took my then gf for dinner and broke up with her because she'd gotten all distant on me. Then I had $17 left in the bank.
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I made a choice. I am not poor anymore. I never will be again.
I have a job now, and I haven't been poor because I am lucky enough to have had money from family. But that isn't the case for everyone. Being poor is not a choice for many many people who are poor.
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I have high school and some college and I’ve never NOT had multiple offers on the table at any given time. I’ve been fired, “let go”, quit jobs, failed at jobs and just left them, and I’ve always had opportunities.
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You and I will never agree, but one of us is right and one of us is wrong.
Also, and this is important: Racism and Sexism definitely still exist in the work place. If you are an urban white male with no criminal record there is a good chance you can find a job, but the same does not apply if you are a black woman in a little town in the sticks. Not if that town is primarily white people.
And not of that accounts for the many many disorders that make getting a job harder.
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I have picked up more useful skills- I looked around at the world around me, found something that was lacking and that I could be great at. I have worked like a slave- almost literally- for now nearly 7 years to develop the skill.
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I’m male, but an immigrant of colour. And I can tell you being male is a disadvantage in my predominantly female office.
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I get what you’re saying, but it’s usually not that complicated. People are, and allow themselves to be weak, and thus fail to capitalize on the opportunities given to them.