• plyth@feddit.org
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    26 days ago

    Check the YT videos of people who said the same and voluntarily tried to escape a life at the bottom. It’s a comforting illusion that one could hustle onself back into ‘normal’ life. I have seen two attempts, and both gave up.

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      26 days ago

      Yeah, because N=2 is definitely a statistically significant sample. Especially when it comes to YouTubers.

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          26 days ago

          Yes, just like two black people moving in is proof that the neighborhood is going to shit.

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            26 days ago

            I don’t have better proof. For me it was enough because I also read the comments and there don’t seem to be many success stories.

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                25 days ago

                Could be. What I wanted to say is that the sample size is bigger than two if the community cannot come up with successful bootstrapping stories.

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                  25 days ago

                  Could be a skill issue.

                  Also, a lot of chronically poor people have a belief that it’s fundamentally immoral to make a lot of money. It’s not. It really comes down to how you go about it, and what you decide to do with it once you have it.

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                    24 days ago

                    Mostly true. It’s just very difficult to make a lot of money in a fully moral way so a lot of people are not entirely wrong.