One Does Not Earn A Billion Dollars

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[–]whistlepig 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

People attempting to have more say/control over their lively hood is normal and everyday.

I disagree with this assumption. I'd like to believe you are right about this, but the masses have been really banging me over the head with the fact that a lot of them strongly disagree and I've had to come to terms with this sad fact. In short... I see a lot of people looking to have less say and control over their lives.

The obvious example in the present is all the people who want governments to force them to take measures to avoid covid rather than to do it on their own. But really, you can say this about all victimless crimes. The unfortunate fact is that many people are inclined to want someone else to tell them what to do.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I don't see anything wrong with people wanting an easy life.

Running a company is a skill like any other and comes with a lot of stress. Of course most people don't want to have to take on that responsibility on top of doing their normal job, they aren't crazy.

[–]whistlepig 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Fair point.

I guess the problem for me is the inclination to not be aware that that is what they are doing and also the odd ignorance of their being any other way and wanting to force everyone else to do the same.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I saw a guy the other day saying him and all his siblings went into the corporate world because his parents had been business owners and and watching what they went through put them off for life.