• MelodiousFunk@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Honestly immigrants … still believe in the American dream

    That’s because they’re new. Just wait until they’ve had the rug yanked out from under them a few times while someone tut-tuts about bootstraps.

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      He’s been here for twenty years. He made 500k last year. He’s a big advocate of pulling yourself up from your bootstraps. That’s his story as an immigrant from Mexico who had nothing and now has a good career.

      More Americans could learn from immigrants and pulling themselves up instead of expecting things to come to them.

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        1 year ago

        You know the phrase pulling yourself up by your boot straps was first invented to make fun of people like you? Lmao

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        1 year ago

        The entitlement is what is killing our country. People just want the nanny state to take care of them.

        I grew up poor, and was told if I did X Y and Z i would be successful. I did those things. I was successful. I had liberal friends who were surviving paycheck to paycheck. I put them on the same plan and they gasp became successful.

        It is why I love immigrants. They don’t listen to people who say you can’t be successful in America. They just come here and crush it.

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            1 year ago

            While I support living wages and single payer system. Until those happen, hard work is the path to success.

            I’ve done well and I’ve worked hard.

            Ive watched immigrants come and start businesses while people from here say there is no opportunity to do that here.

            Socialism/communism isn’t the answer as everyone just ends up with less and not enough.

            People need to realize they control the destiny and can chart their own path.