thompsonx
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You know, reality in life is, connections you have can make a huge difference but do you cash in on the those connections? Not everybody can. A rich kid can have all the best connections, but IF he does not work hard and focus on growing his wealth and spend his time squandering it all away and having fun. Having those connections will be no use. And he will lose the respect of his connections too and find himself that nobody is willing to help him along later.
How do you know this? Are you a rich kid who's parents pay you to stay away and not embarras them?
A street smart poor, or a crazily ambitious poor kid, will try to make his way into the right circles, befriend the ones that are important. Let me tell you, a poor kid can plan to do this as simple as start befriending his rich friends in school,
How do you befrind" friend?
If you are a poor kid you do not go to school with rich kids.
hang out at their place, get to know their parents as children, create a relationship, create a bond, and then basically when he starts out working in life, he already have all the connections at hand to get him somewhere and sail through quite smoothly, because he has got favourtism, the right help, and he had a plan to surround himself with the right people to get there.
Why would the rich kids parents agree to him hanging out with the poor hustler who is trying to worm his way into their bank account?
I've known poor kids who have done this.
Of course you have
Building the right connections is important. Especially if you are a business starter, you need these relations to convince people with money to invest in your business. When you are poor, you need to use other people's money to start. And this was the old school way of how poor kids become rich too.
Perhaps you could list for us how many of the 1000 richest people in the world were poor while growing up.
These days, you got crowd funding, and you can literally get money from strangers from the internet to start your own business if you convince them, you are the right investment.
The strangers will only give you money if you have demonstrated that your product will work at the price point stated.
Or a poor kid can also just stand at the sidelines and decide, his horribly disadvantage and feel bad about it, but never thinking about solutions on what he can do to get out of it.
This would be opinion devoid of fact.
A rich kid may just feel, he has enough money to never work, why work? And just drain or live on his entire inheritance without adding value to the world.
What value have you added to the world?
So to me, I don't understand all these belittling of his achievements.
He has no achievements. He has his family's money and his family's connections. He has multiple bankruptsies, multiple failed marriages, multiple losses in court.
Rich or Poor, being rich doesn't mean you can stay rich unless you know how to manage your money and make it grow, as inherited wealth is not infinite. And Being poor doesn't mean getting rich is impossible.
If this platitude had any merit you would be able to show with some citation this economic mobility in both directions.
But it's all up to individuals how they wanna achieve what they want. I think Trump works very hard for a pampered rich kid.
It is obvious that you do not think.
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