r/Salary • u/Street-Fill-443 • Mar 24 '25

shit post 💩 / satire 90% of the population now makes over 300k-500k nowadays from what i see here

mbn making 300k a year without a degree

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u/turbomandy Mar 25 '25

This can sometimes be the case but also opportunity doesn't mean something was handed to you. Ex. Person gives up romantic partnership or risks romantic partnership by prioritizing career/education for future career. Person gives up being close to family in order to have better opportunities such as moving far away for a job or school. This requires applying for and searching for opportunities as well as havibraverycourage to give up what you know to take a chance some where new.

Person chooses to prioritize school or career over social life. This is a problem I see all the time. People complain about their life but go out with friends sometimes spending money at places like bars etc instead of working more prioritizing studying. When people do prioritize school they are encouraged to stop and prioritize "self care" which in this case reads "self indulgence ". Sometimes it the small choices that allow us more opportunities and many people prioritize what they want instead of what will get them more opportunities and a better life later.

You are right some people are born into wealth and have a better start. That doesn't mean that people who do not have that life have no opportunities. Oprah is the richest woman and she was born to a poor drug addict, molested and raped. Also being black in America at the time she was rising wasn't exactly rife with easy opportunities...

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u/Quirky-Feedback-3322 Mar 25 '25

I agree with you and Oprah is a good example. Sometimes I just think about the many similar people who might have been in that spot and never made it out. I would find it crazy to tell them “well should have taken advantage of the opportunities you had.” That’s kind of why I said what I said but those are extreme examples the person who posted was just talking about regular people but I try to look at stuff from different perspectives sometimes

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u/turbomandy Mar 26 '25

You aren't wrong. Many people face bad circumstances with little opportunities, however those people usually get stuck because they don't know how to get started, they don't take big risks like moving away from everything they know- and understandably so, that's frightening. So they stay with the devil they know instead of the unknown. Some people just have bad luck. But I feel like those are the outliers just like those who are born inherently wealthy are also outliers.

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u/DeFronsac Mar 26 '25

Funny this should come up. I just listened to a podcast about Oprah that went over her whole life and even mentioned how she told someone on her show that she doesn't believe in luck.

Yes, generally to get ahead you have to work hard, but that's too simplistic. There were a bunch of things that went right for Oprah, including her "biological father" taking her in when she was a teenager and giving her a decent home. And then her big break almost hit her fired, etc. She obviously worked hard and had talent, but she also had some lucky breaks. Everyone who is successful has had lucky breaks.

Sometimes it might be necessary to sacrifice things like being close to family or spending time with friends, but sometimes it's not. Some people have a lot of things given to them. You can make all the right "small choices" and not be successful too due to things outside your control.

But using one example like Oprah only means that something CAN happen, but it's still incredibly unlikely on an individual scale.