What gets me about this “hard work” mythos is just how dumb it is. It just doesn’t hold up to even 3 seconds of critical thought. Seriously though, out of 7 to 8 billion humans on Earth, only a few hundred had the gumption to become billionaires? The option is just laying there, out in the open, and anybody could pick it up, just decide one day to become a billionaire, and then do it? Despite all those people jumping into grind/hustle culture, who are working very hard, yet for some reason have decided not to become billionaires? And those who grind/hustle, and are not financially successful at all, have they chosen that path for, I dunno, love of the game? Or as performance art?
Can we not think of any material or structural reasons why a child born in, say, Soweto in 1971 hasn’t ascended to be the world’s richest man, while a child born nearby in Pretoria has?
What gets me about this “hard work” mythos is just how dumb it is. It just doesn’t hold up to even 3 seconds of critical thought. Seriously though, out of 7 to 8 billion humans on Earth, only a few hundred had the gumption to become billionaires? The option is just laying there, out in the open, and anybody could pick it up, just decide one day to become a billionaire, and then do it? Despite all those people jumping into grind/hustle culture, who are working very hard, yet for some reason have decided not to become billionaires? And those who grind/hustle, and are not financially successful at all, have they chosen that path for, I dunno, love of the game? Or as performance art?
Can we not think of any material or structural reasons why a child born in, say, Soweto in 1971 hasn’t ascended to be the world’s richest man, while a child born nearby in Pretoria has?