The cliche to work smart is really key. You don't really need to work hard to have a nice lifestyle, but I would also argue that building something from the ground up takes a lot of upfront investment (time and possibly money) and as it grows you can work less.
99% of people need to be told what to do, though, and have no drive or ambition to do anything but work a standard job.
Yes, it is possible for a person to get rich by hard work.
No, the degree of wealth accumulation we've seen in the last couple decades at the top is unsustainable, extremely harmful to society and should be fought against.
R*dditors equate working full time hours with working hard. If you spend all your money on stupid shit or just sit at the same dead end job for 10 years you'll never go anywhere.
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13 Hoes_very_Mad 2020-07-14
The amount of people in that thread who are too economically inept to understand that net worth does not equal cash in their bank account is unreal.
7 GeminiRocket 2020-07-14
So you're telling me he doesn't live like this
9 Lysis10 2020-07-14
The cliche to work smart is really key. You don't really need to work hard to have a nice lifestyle, but I would also argue that building something from the ground up takes a lot of upfront investment (time and possibly money) and as it grows you can work less.
99% of people need to be told what to do, though, and have no drive or ambition to do anything but work a standard job.
7 cfbWORKING 2020-07-14
Fucking based
6 CONaMBESTanOT 2020-07-14
I don't get defending one side over the other.
Yes, it is possible for a person to get rich by hard work. No, the degree of wealth accumulation we've seen in the last couple decades at the top is unsustainable, extremely harmful to society and should be fought against.
2 HyperIceCube 2020-07-14
Amazon’s service is too good for me to boycott mr bezos :(
1 IncelReadingHour 2020-07-14
I unironically want him to be our President.
1 somestupidname1 2020-07-14
R*dditors equate working full time hours with working hard. If you spend all your money on stupid shit or just sit at the same dead end job for 10 years you'll never go anywhere.
1 Eternal_Mr_Bones 2020-07-14
These people think Bezos was affluent before Amazon.
6 Lysis10 2020-07-14
I'm gonna show my xoomer age but I remember when his store was just a shitty bookstore with 1990s graphics that they still use for their buttons.
1 AleksiejLublov 2020-07-14
Hard work? No. Smart work? Yes.
5 mqL49J 2020-07-14
Making Amazon is hard work, marrying a fella that made Amazon? Smart.
3 AlexJones_GayFrog 2020-07-14
R*dditors think showing up to their shift at subway on time and sober counts as hard work
1 rodentsinmygenitalia 2020-07-14
Working with the sort of people employed at subway is emotional labor.
t. sandwichcel
1 ABaadPun 2020-07-14
unexpectedly based