ilia25
I can do math
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I never said anything about attending college or getting a degree. I never went to college. Instead, I used my worth ethic to secure a job in a field that I liked. Then I educated myself as much as possible about the job and developed my skills in performing the job. I worked at that job for 20 years, and then I went out on my own and started my own business in that same field. I owned that company for 18 years and used it to support my family and better myself and improve my lifestyle. I sold my company last year and made enough money from it to support me and my family in my retirement years.
If I can do it, so can you and everyone else. You don't need a college education to pull yourself up by the bootstraps and make your life better. All it takes is a little hard work and a lot of determination.
No, you are wrong -- we can't all become business owners. Only some of us can.
It's like a race -- yes, you can beat others by working harder, but there is not enough room on the podium to accommodate every participant. No matter how hard every participant tries, only very few of them end up as winners.
Then why be content to remain one who can't? The economy is not a 'zero-sum' game. Just because one person makes a lot that doesn't mean that someone else has to make less.
In does in practice. The richest elite incomes grow so fast, they actually pocket all newly created wealth. That's why the middle class incomes are stagnating, and the poor actually see their real incomes falling.
What you can accomplish, and earn, is up to you and not someone else.
Of course not! If that someone else is more talented and/or working harder than you, he will take your job, or put you out of business. There is room for only so many successful entrepreneurs, CEOs or expensive lawyers. The rest will work low paying jobs no matter what.