• callouscomic@lemm.ee
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    7 hours ago

    As Obama said and people failed to comprehend and thus were outraged:

    You didn’t build that.

    People are immensely selfish and don’t want to admit the extensive societal structures that help us get to and be who we are. If anyone ever speaks about “self-made” anything, you should walk away. It’s okay to be proud of your accomplishment, but there’s a way to and not to talk about it.

    Maybe I’m sensitive to it because of my parents who obsessed over looking like a success and better than everyone else, to the detriment of their family.