Self-Made

The whole concept of the self‑made man or woman is a myth

Arnold Schwarzenegger

what do you mean by that?
- You can hear it directly from Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I'm too tired to look it up, but I remember someone saying that resilience or grit was one of the best indicators of success. Someone replied that actually the best indicator of success is if you came from wealth.

Also grit is an over hyped and under delivered construct of human cognition that really is only spoken of seriously nowadays by people trying to sell you something
https://www.apa.org/news/apa/2020/gritty-truth
- grit makes me think of Bukowski novels like Post Office. Just a bunch of dudes laboring to look like they're working hard to please the boss, rather than to do the labor.
Lol sure, resilience and grit are great markers of success!...Provided you can afford enough resilience and grit until you succeed! Lol
this is one famous study https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/beautiful-minds/the-role-of-luck-in-life-success-is-far-greater-than-we-realized/
I'm sure grit + wealth is far better than either alone. It's really probably grit + wealth + connections + luck.
- Grift + wealth works even better.

Hey now. That "emerald mine in apartheid South Africa" but is not true at all. He benefited from being the son of a rich white guy in apartheid South Africa. The emerald mine was in Zambia. He materially benefited from colonial rule in TWO countries.

touché

The only self-made man I acknowledge is Philip J. Fry.

Bet he didn't animate himself smh he owed his success to the story board artists

As Ann Richards so succinctly put it: born on 3rd base, thought he hit a triple.

um ackshually Musk's dad was only part-owner of that mine, so we give this two pinocchios

Self Attribution Fallacy

https://www.monbiot.com/2011/11/07/the-self-attribution-fallacy/

Not a meme...

when you definitely know what the word meme means
- we got enough political BS all over the platform. But sure, I guess people who don't want to see repeated "capitalism bad" in every community in every post should just leave lemmy.

Nothing more hilarious than billionaire simps.
- The main thing sitting between me and being a billionaire is my conscience and moral values. I'm of the opinion that to become a billionaire you must necessarily have psychopathic tendencies.
  For example: No way I could stand up on stage and bullshit my way through a Cybertruck reveal knowing it's all lies and unfinished ideas.
- I'm pro universal basic income and a 99% tax after something around a few mil of annual income. I'd generally advocate for a societal system where such wealth accumulation by an individual is impossible.
  "Lefties" like you make me sick to my stomach. You can only whine your jealous tears and complain about the housing market. You're the reason everyone thinks the left are a bunch of idiot kids in colorful clothes. In a utopic communist society you'd be leeching off while whining about how everyone keeps working even though it's clearly unnecessary.
cool, I'll go make a powerpoint, can you also give me the necessary:
parents with spare $600k+ (inflation-adjusted from 1994 when Amazon started) to give me to build a prototype
rich &/ or influential friends, from my family and my expensive education
expensive education
etc
Signed, someone who thinks it is unhealthy for society for any one person to have the equivalent of a billion dollars