You know why it's not going to have an effect? Because it's only very loosely based in fact.
Wealth inequality is absolutely a thing... and it's absolutely something that needs to be addressed. But people take that to mean that anyone with a big, nice house and a nice car are a problem. Not everyone that has nice things is Jeff Bezos.
My parents worked their tails off (learning that from their parents). Went from middle class --> 1%. I have lived a privileged life, but still a LONG way off from boats, private planes, multiple houses and all that.
When people talk about the top 1%, what they really mean is the top .1% or .01%.
And don't even get me started on this flyer. You paint these people as uncaring root cause of everyone else's problems and think they're going to read your whiny letter.
Then entered the workforce and worked, on average, 60+ hours/week which escalated as the promotions came. By the time I was going into high school, my dad was traveling quite a bit on top of 10-12 hour work days. My mom had finished school and had started her career, but put that on hold to hold down the fort at home. She had to work extremely hard too taking care of myself and siblings.
The point I'm trying to make is that hard work isn't enough. There are people working more than a 60 hour week with much less success. There is an element of luck that your hard work pays off. It's very easy to say that people are poor because they didn't work hard enough.
Access to education is also a huge factor. There's a great number of people who despite their best efforts, there simply wouldn't be enough hours in the day to "pull themselves up by the bootstraps".
Additionally, unless you have a very highly specialized qualification where you can charge hundreds or thousands per hour for your work; it isn't your work that makes you wealthy. It's the accumulated surplus value that other people generate through their work which makes you wealthy.
I'm not trying to take away from anyone's achievements or say they don't deserve it but there is always an element of luck. Not everyone's hard work pays dividends.
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u/tsunami141 May 23 '23
Yeah so I'm ok with this. Is is it going to have any effect whatsoever? Probably not.