^no true scottsman

The harder you work and the more productive you are working and the more you benefit people the richer you become usually.

You're the one making the strawmans.

The boss doesn't work at all, and yet he gets the largest portion of the profit. Your wage is subtracted.

The boss does.

No. He doesn't make the things his company sells, the workers do.

The boss is the most important in the business.

His workers sell while he employs them and gives them instructions and leads them

and thats just a handful of what they do

some also sell and some dont

Are all communists so upset and jealous of their bosses?

No. We just recognise that their mere existance is immoral.

Then be self employed

If everyone could do that then capitalism would collapse

Or just make a family business

No it wouldnt

since everyone can do that

It just takes a lot of skill to do so

I assume

You assume

I assume it takes a lot of skill to be self employed yes.

I could obviously be wrong though.

The economic conditions you're born into signifigantly effect your oppurtunities. If the opposite were true then everyone would be pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, which of course isn't true.

It can effect your oppurtunities yes but you can still be successful and rich if you try.

My grandad started off going to england for a job then came back with a shoe and a pound or something. Then he climbed the ladder by working very hard and did so until he died. Now my family is rich.

Only like 1 in 10 people in the lower class end up making six figures. Surely the other 9 were trying hard enough and weren't lucky enough.

And this was very long ago and in Ireland.

Well good for your family

From where?

It's not all about luck, its mainly about skill.

In the US. It's a broad assesment but it's modt likely based in truth

Skill that is usually acquired in school.

Yet most of the people in america arent lower class I assume.

Not all skilled people get rich. Nikola Tesla died starving and in poverty and he contirbuted greatly to science.

That's true but that was also another time too. Perhaps if he contributed during these days he'd gain a lot I imagine.

But in general most skilled people get jobs and dont die of poverty.

Not sure about back then but nowadays they certainly do.

There are still skilled people who just arent lucky enough or dont have jobs available or just have to support their family or something.

But in the end most people generally dont suffer the same faith, especially the skilled and educated.

Fun fact: the word "meritocracy" was invented in 1958 by English writer Michael Young for satirical purposes.