The kids posting here simply cannot know or remember what it USED to be like for American workers.
Most of them have no idea how much the working classes have lost in the last 40 years, and since some of these scions started out with multiple legs up that few people have, it panders to their conceiet to imagine that everything they have they earned and the working classes are going down because of their own foibles.
But ya know...I spend most of my life going to school with very wealthy kids and then, after I started work. making some of these pampered scions even richer, too.
And yes, many of them work hard, too, and are highly productive and thoroughly decent people, too, without doubt.
But they did not start out with nothing.
And everything they have they did not get by their own efforts and they KNOW IT, too, even if some of them are such cowards that they cannot even admit it to themselves.
They started out with every advantage this society can give the wealthy, and they also know they are so blessed because millions workers work damned hard to give them those advantages without any hope that THEIR children will ever have those sorts of chances that their masters children have.
There's nothing wrong with capitalism until the capitalists forget what it took for them to have all that capital.
And that is exactly why some of this board's scions, and this generation of scions generally are so brutish and basically lying to themselves and anybody else who will listen.
They know perfectly well if the playing field was truly on the level, they'd be struggling to keep their heads above water just like most of us.
So rather than accept that they're lucky to have had those opportunities that most people will never have, they choose to blame the victims of the system that supports them.
Basically many scions are nothing but self agandizing equivicators and they KNOW it.
Now perhaps, we will read the mythical bios from some here who imagine that we're going believe them when they tell us how they are self made men.
And a few of those stories will be in part true, too, no doubt.
But most of these stories will be heavily redacted such that the real advantages those people started out with will be overlooked or not mentioned.
Count on this to happen, because these self made man stories happen every time I post a post like this.
Some scions might be so clueless that they believe their own fables about their enormous compentence.
And let's face it, there's no hope for those idiots.
Not everybody is the scion of a rich family. Some people start out with everything, others start out with VERY LITTLE, maybe that works for you. Some get lucky, some don't. Some get smart, go to school, make something of themselves, some don't. Some lay around on their fat asses bitching about those top 1% folks instead of trying to work their way up. Some have a sucky attitude, some don't. No hope for those idiots either.