It’s not sour grapes I’m spitting, but it’s far too easy for these types to say something stupid without remembering back to when they were 18 and, without mommy and daddy’s help, would have had nothing. And that’s how MOST 18 year old kids start: nothing. No money, no help.

I started with nothing, zero college, no endorsements, no frat brothers, no money. Luck paved the way and I ended up working in advertising and marketing until I launched my own business that is now 19 years old. While it may falter once in a while, I’ve had good years too. I have zero debt and own two homes. I truly started with nothing, no money, no schooling and nothing but some lousy drawings in a borrowed portfolio. It took a lot of fast talking, bullshitting and working for 7 grand a year at a publishing company to give me my first break that led to other breaks later. And I had some talent which helps.

Luck of the draw.

Much like the rich luckily being born into a rich family, luck helps quite a bit. But they don’t like to talk about that, now do they?

Yes, some may work 60 hrs per week but so do a lot of poor people. (Although most of the wealthy just inherit their wealth or “earn” it by playing the stock market.) I’ve worked 7 days a week myself but I was still poor @the end of it all. In fact, I’ve been working since I was 12. Most of these “I made it” people haven’t been working since they were 12.

Their rich parents paid their way through college, so they don’t graduate w/student loan debt. They don’t grow up in dangerous neighborhoods dodging bullets and drug dealers on their way to school. They go to schools that prepare them for college and have parents who help them w/their homework. Often they have connections who help them get the best jobs so they don’t have to worry about working at McDonalds for the rest of their lives. They know they’re going to go to college and get upper level jobs. Their future was mapped out for them b4 they were born. They have no clue as to what life is like for those of us born with real obstacles in front of us. They’ll never understand that. They lack empathy and compassion and that will never change unless they lose their jobs, their homes, etc., and they have to face real obstacles in their own lives. IMHO, that’s why the country’s falling apart right now. Americans need to learn compassion again and they’ll only learn that by suffering themselves, sadly.

In a sense, such people are wealthy in terms of money and material things but they are poor in spirit.