I absolutely agree. But it does mean that you cannot say that those who prosper are necessarily those who made good choices, or that those who end up poor made bad choices. And that is even more the case when privilege (such as huge amounts of money, access to education, and the general respect of the "powers that be" in society) as well as handicaps (meaning the opposite of those things) are communicated from generation to generation. A child born into a poor black ghetto with an absent father and a drug-using mother has way less of a chance of succeeding than a child born into a rich white family that runs half the town, even if the black child makes better choices than the white one. Which is why you cannot simply present that as a "natural order". That is way too simplistic of an approach.
Being at a disadvantage doesn't mean you are a helpless victim of circumstance. I they are honest, most adults will admit they are where they are due to their own choices.
So you admit you're a divorced, middle-aged man in a one-bedroom apartment with a dead-end job entirely due to your own choices?
I admit that's your ignorant, bitchy little spin on it. I've never claimed to be a victim. And not every vocation ouside idle acadamia is "dead end," you smug little putz.
No, not every one for sure. My father's wasn't. But yours is. So, all your choice, then? You're absolutely living the life you want to live, and any regrets you have are all entirely of your own making?
Do you REALLY believe this? Do you believe that you would be exactly where you are today if you had been born to parents who owned a family business worth millions, they could afford to get you any kind of education you wanted with no debt, you were guaranteed a good-paying job at the company at absolutely any time, and you were guaranteed to become the company's owner upon their retirement? Or if you were the beneficiary of a $2 million trust fund that started paying you a guaranteed income of $8,000 a month beginning at age 18 and continuing for the rest of your life? I think you're about the right age to have played Oregon Trail as a kid. You understand that there's a reason the game is considered to be harder if you play as a farmer from Illinois than a banker from Boston, right?
Yes. No, and nothing like that is not essential to my point. To portray reality as "trust fund easy mode" versus "absolutely unable to make a single choice to improve your lot in life," with no gradients in between, is just dishonest class warfare horse hockey that people invoke to downplay accountability for their own decisions.
That might be what they think, but they are wrong. Their own choices contributed, but so did a lot of factors beyond their control. I personally did not choose to be born in a white family in one of the richest nations on Earth, or to have the advantage of free public education from the time I was very young, or to grow up in the prosperous time after WW2 and before the major crises of the 70s, or to have the capacities that made it possible for me to go to a very good university on a national merit scholarship, or the capacities that have made it possible for me to do the things I do today... If I were to claim that my own choices were the only, or even primary factor in what I have become, I would be delusional and/or taking credit for things over which I had no control. Sure, I think I made some good choices. But most of what I have done with my life has been the result of capacities I either had from birth, or inherited by the time and place in which I was born. Nothing I can take credit for.
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Is it bad I know what that interchange is just by looking at it, and it's one I haven't paid any attention to or driven through?
you see UA cannot acknowledge that not even a hint of acknowleging that, that would blow his simpleton's world view to pieces. please do not allow reason and intelligence to enter the conversation those things are not in UA repetoire.
You're still trying the "either I control my fate 100% or it doesn't count" routine. Those were never my terms. Where you have a choice, you can either make the practical one or accept the consequences. It does not matter if someone else has an easier time of it.
So, again, you're saying it's your choices that led to you being a divorced middle-aged man in a dead-end job? And that you're happy with your choices? I'll keep asking every time you being up this tired BS you keep peddling. Because I know you will do anything but give a straight answer.
Saying I'm content with my life now is not the same as saying I'm happy with every choice I made in the past. You can fuck off with your bitchy little semantics games. My answers are clear, and do not require your inconsequential approval.
