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Originally Posted by Hondaracer
The thing is now.. you can be making 300k a year and you still can’t afford to have a shitty vacation home.
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I'm supposed to have a shitty vacation home?
I, like many of you, won a lottery when our parents immigrated here from wherever it was they were from because no amount of hard work or sacrifice back in their homeland (Hong Kong in my case) could have given me the life I have now (or the one I got to live as a child).
At the same time, I very much notice that my hard work and sacrifice in this world still leads me to getting passed over for opportunities that I'm very capable or qualified for. I watch CEOs say that they hire the best people regardless of race or gender and then watch their actions tell me that the "best people" are white guys who come from the same backgrounds they come from.
There's no promise that hard work and eating ramen will lead to some promised land of 5 houses. You may just be unlucky that your skills don't match the lucrative jobs out there or you grew up in in the wrong place or your passions don't align with money (eg. being a teacher or researcher etc). Conversely you may be some lucky bastard that landed on the ground floor of a rocket ship (I have twice) and got taken for a ride.
Since so much of life is a lottery there should be some basic standard of living like a decent home for everyone and we shouldn't expect that someone live in a basement for 10 years with 3 roommates to make that happen.