bingo
we have a winner
i dont care if you make 25k, 250k, or 250m a year
it is none of my business....and if you are making 250m a year....hopefully you are bringing a few others with you into that stratosphere
this country is all about opportunity......the sky is the limit.....
we make more millionaires in this country than anywhere else.....period
my wife and i make a nice living......we also give back
my boss makes a ton more than i do.....he earns it.....his fed income tax paid in april was in the mid 7 figures
he gives back too
the idea is to get as many successful people around as we can....and let others work for them
that is the capitalist society i know.....and it works
One problem with that, currently at least....
Many/most of the decent paying jobs almost require a degree of some sort, and the better require at least a 4-year one. That could cost a person tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, depending on degree, school, and what kind of grants they can get.
It's basically a debt gate to many "good" jobs.
If you don't pay the toll, you don't have the opportunity.
Now, I'm not saying college should be free (or at least not without serious limits, because I know damn well some people would stay in school if that was the case), but for ****s sake it's basically a door that keeps the people with less money out, even if they have the capability.
Sure a few get through, but even then they have to be exceptional, because the public schools in lower-income areas are crappy compared to richer neighborhoods....not to mention a poor family won't have as much time to help their kids (because working a couple-few jobs for what little money they can get...or hell, they may be ****ty parents and not bother to, although that's not a low-income specific thing.
So we have a person who starts in a poor situation, with barriers all around to realizing their full potential, then if they manage to get decent grades in school and survive whatever else their youth throws at them, they have to indebt themselves to what seems an overly expensive higher education system just to get through the door that leads to....
A job market which is frankly seemingly unable to provide jobs for them all...or why do you have overqualified (degree-wise, at least) people in multiple areas?
Sure they could just not care, or they don't know how to find a new job, or whatever you want as a reason.
But it seems to me that if this ****storm were working as well as you say, we'd have more capable people getting the jobs that require said capability.
And then when they do get hired, they're liable to be underpaid.
In short, generally higher education is too expensive, and job availability/pay is too low.
And thousands of poor individuals don't even encounter that **** because they can't get away from the ****storm the society they were born into placed them in.
Ok that got long-winded and probably covers multiple problems....