some type of adult girl

thatadult:

It’s so scary hearing rich kids saying their parents are rich “because” they work really hard at their one job. or emphasizing that their parents didn’t have anything handed to them. My grandparents worked really hard and didn’t have anything handed to them and they were poor their whole lives.. and their ancestors worked hard and got displaced from their land in Tennessee and Georgia and faced violence from white supremacists and didn’t have opportunities. My parents worked really hard and had nothing handed to them, and they became rich for a couple of years because they got lucky. And then they lost all their money! and now work harder than they ever did, and don’t have any money lmao!!!!!! Poor people work hard… poor people work hard every day. What’s the point of equating your richness with hard work in comparison to poor people… like, it’s 100% rhetoric to demonize poor people and suggest that they’re poor *because* they’re lazy, and aren’t working hard enough, don’t want it hard enough, didn’t pull themselves up by their bootstraps etc. it’s baseless construction of meritocracy lol “my parents are rich because they work hard” WHO WITH A JOB DOESN’T WORK HARD, SUSIE..?

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