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[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Reality check: you don't make boatloads of money for having useful skills everyone has (or should have). You make boat loads of money when you have useful skills that few people have.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 54 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Reality Check: You make, or don't, make boatloads on money based on your social skills, and your status at birth.

You can literally map zip codes at birth to salary.

[–] dr_robotBones@reddthat.com 19 points 2 weeks ago

The useful skill of being born rich so you could go to an Ivy League School.

[–] gray@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 weeks ago

Reality check: your relation to capital determines how many boat loads of money you make

[–] M1ch431@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

I just assumed it was some new refugee who landed on the flagship but nope, two year old account that's been dodging .ml State Security somehow

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 9 points 2 weeks ago

Or just be born into a rich family. Not sure that counts as a skill really.

Been born into a rich family and then murdering your way to your inheritance without getting caught, now that's a skill.

So you believe we live in a meritocracy? I find that staggering at this point.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The useful skill of being able to sack hundreds of people to make a few dollars for shareholders and still be able to sleep at night.

[–] Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

Or, in simpler terms, a lack of empathy.

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

what illiterate upvoted this grift?

20 upvotes and 16 downvotes. Crazy work.

[–] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

That is definitely not true when everyone seems to have that one horror story where they have an incompetent coworker a level above them.