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minus-squarejimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down2·3 months agoIs there not a saying about this, I forget the direct one… How would you push back against these, I know many working class people are born hearing them, as well as people starting their own businesses… Here are some similar ones though: “Never use your own money when you can spend someone else’s.” — Ken Follett Kenneth Martin Follett, is a Welsh author of thrillers and historical novels who has sold more than 160 million copies of his works. [Picture below says: ‘First Rule of Money: Never use your own.’]
minus-squarelurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·3 months agothat’s nice and all, but if you have more than 10 million i feel that doesn’t make sense any more.
minus-squareThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 months agoWhat if you want a jet that costs 20 million? Think about it bro
minus-squarejimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·3 months agoThat may be true, but that is the logic that is pushed on us since our birth as well as by the ‘job creators’. It seems to be the norm or also known as the status quo thinking, so that we may achieve the ‘American dream’.
Is there not a saying about this, I forget the direct one…
How would you push back against these, I know many working class people are born hearing them, as well as people starting their own businesses…
Here are some similar ones though:
“Never use your own money when you can spend someone else’s.”
— Ken Follett
[Picture below says: ‘First Rule of Money: Never use your own.’]
that’s nice and all, but if you have more than 10 million i feel that doesn’t make sense any more.
What if you want a jet that costs 20 million? Think about it bro
That may be true, but that is the logic that is pushed on us since our birth as well as by the ‘job creators’.
It seems to be the norm or also known as the status quo thinking, so that we may achieve the ‘American dream’.