imagine believing this was true
Imagine believing that this was true and also defending them despite the fact that that would mean that as people, CEOs know what being poor and starving on minimum wage is like, and just have 0 empathy for others and continue to cause people to suffer despite being there themselves
there’s a reason the fuckers on undercover boss can’t do a single goddamned job when they go undercover….they were literally born into a higher class and got to go right to the 6 figure job right off the bat… their first job may not have been ceo, but they absolutely weren’t minimum wage…..
that’s also why you see these same fuckers thinking that they “worked their way to the top” they think “working” is not getting the ceo job right away… they had to “waste away” in that 800k job for six years until one day the ceo died and they stepped right in
statistically, class mobility as a whole (the ability for a lower class citizen to “work their way up” from a lower paying job to a higher one, and earn a better living for themselves) has been disappearing over time, even though many people still believe it’s the norm
the “rags to riches” story of someone who started at minimum wage and is now rich is a myth – this almost never actually happens any more, but the narrative is still sold to low wage workers to encourage them to keep suffering under poor working conditions under the pretense that they can make it big if they just work harder. it also serves to make upper class billionaires appear as an inspirational story that masks the truth of how they actually got there
artherra 