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You are god-like. You can literally do magick in your head (math) and use it to change the world to whatever great works you desire. The universe can not stand against you, any barrier it put in your way you can blow through like no creature has ever even imagined. You can create things the like of which has never existed in the whole of the universe...
You, a human, are one of the most powerful forces in the whole of existance, start acting like it.
@freemo *if you have money.
If you don't, then you'll exhaust all those marvelous mechanisms in your head just to struggle to get a roof over your head and enough to eat at the end of the day.
Disagree because if you don't have the money you are more than capable of making it.
Inb4: not everyone has an equally easy tine of getting out of poverty, the system is certainly broken. But with very few exceptions almost everyone is capable.
I grew up on welfare and in rather significant poverty. Now I'm a millionaire. I wasnt ucky or privilaged in any significant way. Ibjuatbblasted through the barriers rather than accepting my victim hood.
@freemo You can't think of *any* privileges you might have had? Even something so simple as someone to set a good example for you?
@freemo For example, I was born into a lower-middle class family, and I worked my way up to becoming a highly-paid consultant, but I also know damn well that I never would have found my calling were it not for the privilege of going to a school that had the resources for a computer program in the late 90s.
I dropped out of school because they refused goblet me skip ahead to college level courses which in was already doing by middle school.. so for me school was certainly not a privilage
@freemo Then you could also consider the privilege of absence. During this time when you were pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, did you have additional mouths to feed? Debilitating and uncontrollable medical expenses? Inherited debt? PTSD?
The older I get, the more I notice that people always want to see themselves as the underdog. We accentuate our meager origins while remaining blind to our advantages. I'm as guilty of this as anyone.
@louis again all those things could make getting out of it harder for sure. There is no doubt some people may need to put in more effort than others. But again all are capable.
At 15 my 100k job was my first job. So prior to reaching that point of success my mom was the only one creating income through welfare mostly, that had to support the whole household as no one else worked.
Yes we had huge medical expenses as my mom was in no way encouraging me, I had to fight her instruction as a parent so she was constantly trying to get me treated by psychologists or doctors to "get me under control". She has parkinsons and the crippling anxiety that goes with it, my grandparents had multiple strokes and heart attacks, we had huge debt, and likely some undiagnosed PTSD on my grandfathers side.
And I do agree people always are the hero of their own story. I won't claim to be an exception here, but i think my story speaks for itself.
@freemo Okay, let's drill into that first bit. How was your first job $100K? Mine was $5.50 an hour.
I devoted myself to learning advanced math, coding and electronics. My plan was tonlearnbit, build something very impressive put it out there for free and use that to get my first job.
After years from a very young age studying around 14 in reached the point that was possible. I the developed a p2p algorithm with my own compression algorithm that was 100x faster than the best commercial options on the market. Beibgnonly 15 this made for an interesting news story so as a result I was getting a lot of news attention. Due to my abilities and the attention I got as a result of that I had about 20 different companies offering me jobs at that price range.
So very much as the result of hard work id say.
@freemo Learning coding and electronics is one thing, but you need money and hardware to practice them to any reasonable degree, especially for building new technology. Where did that come from?
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The library for the computer. The electronics was from going into trash bins to harvest parts and equipment. I had very little equipment, a soldering iron and some found components. Ibremeber just getting the solar for the solder was very hard, had to cut lawns to even afford that much.
