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Originally Posted by dobbles
I don't know any wealthy people personally. But when I worked for Dell, I interacted professionally with plenty of top execs. Up to the level that reported Directly to Michael Dell. And in my experience, the higher up they were, the more likely they were to blow tons of company money flying around attending meetings they didn't need to be at. In my time in the corporate world, that was pretty standard.
I am back in higher ed at a major university and while the leaders here are not particularly high wealth individuals, I still find that the higher up they are, the more time they spend on travel and networking and appearences.
And in both situations, I would take a single mom juggling multiple part time jobs and kids over any of those execs in terms of hard work. And unless the billionaire class suddenly bucks the trend, I can't imagine there's many much that would change that. There's a difference between actually working hard, and schmoozing with other elite.
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I can't and won't argue that single moms have a very tough row to hoe. Not really germane to the discussion either though.
Interestingly, I heard on 960 this morning Peter Loumbardius say how social media seems to make everyone an expert in everything. People look at the outside and think they understand and they just don't. That is clear in this post and so many others.
I have made my point and either you can accept it or not. I am not building up ultra rich/successful people. I just believe that it takes a lot of things for them to get where they are and hard work is a lot of it. The they are born rich is true in some cases and others it is not. As example my relative comes from a farm life and started with nothing. Are there others that had a head start. Absolutely! They are the bad ones if I read a lot of these posts.
Again, I have had my say.