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The day I became a millionaire (2015)

25 pointsby melzareiover 6 years ago

2 comments

HiroshiSanover 6 years ago
Can we get a (2015) tag on this?
webmavenover 6 years ago
Interesting perspective. It is conditioned, though, on the existence of a robust set of safety nets provided by society, and on those safety nets existing long enough that people have grown up with them[0].<p>Most of the rest of us are approximately one major health issue (for ourselves or an immediate family member) away from a cascade of failures leading to utter devastation and ruin, up to and including an early death.<p>We are the precariat.<p>[0] If the US suddenly had Medicare-for-all and Universal Basic Income tomorrow, you shouldn&#x27;t expect the attitudes of people who had grown up in less-than-secure conditions to change overnight.