Quote Originally Posted by Tater View Post
If your hard work netted you $100 per hour and you saved every bit. It would take you >1,000 years to become a Billionaire. That's non stop working. Every day. 24 hours a day.

It's not hard work at that point. That's such a ****ing bs lie that you've been fed. The American dream is over. Hard work just gets you exploited.
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You are letting your bitterness and envy affect your judgement. Most billionaires did work for a long time starting their own business and onlly had wealth on paper for a long time before they really got to enjoy the fruits of their labor. There are more exceptions to this now with tech and finance, but even they mostly don't get rich by exploiting other people. They get rich by providing something people want, and are lucky enough to do it first in an areas that is more or less winner take all, where you get outsized gains for being first (either in time or in quality).

Quote Originally Posted by Tater View Post
Our economy tanked, good people lost houses, and in 2008 we blamed poor people, teachers, and immigrants. We spent trillions to save the banks. They then gave execs bonuses, did nothing to solve the problem, and now we're about to see another bubble pop.
In 2008, pretty much nobody blamed poor people, teachers, and immigrants. They blamed either banks or government policy. There was relatively little blame placed on the people actually taking NINJA loans. There were people that got to live in $500k homes with no downpayment and get to walk away with nothing but a foreclosure on their credit report after living in homes for months and in some cases years without making payments, and even they didn't really get blamed. Even though their acts left other people taking six figure losses that they could not walk away from, there was no blame for them.