• @[email protected]
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    Losing everything. My family wasn’t rich but it was well off, and in my young stupidity I thought we deserved to live better than others did because we worked hard (had a family business).
    Turns out hard work means almost jack shit. I mean, I’m good now because I have very marketable skills and I do work hard at a job not many want to do, but it takes me around the world and I can tell you, fucking everything in life depends on luck, starting from where you are born.

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      I can tell you, fucking everything in life depends on luck, starting from where you are born.

      Now my friend, you are wiser than ever before!

      It’s called “Ecclesiastes 9:11”

      I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

      starting from where you are born

      This, too… how you are born dictates how (routes) to get to the riches. (Thats why some connections are useless) still; luck will find you wherever and whoever you are, its up to you to grab it firm.

      • @Nudding
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        You needed a 2000 year old book to tell you that hard work and intelligence matters very little in comparison to luck lol? How much money mommy and daddy have are the only thing that matters in the capitalist arrangement of the economy.

        • @[email protected]
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          The source is irrelevant to the topic. Do you actually disagree with the quote? Do you have further to add to the conversation?

          And it has come from a 2,000 year old letter. You would have had no issue with the quote had it not been included in the bible.

          You have added no wisdom here. Militant atheists waving their virtual dicks around about how enlightened they are is not among the things I miss from Reddit.

          • @Nudding
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            11 year ago

            We didn’t miss you either.