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While boasting about a “privileged” status of people who could
afford to buy homes because they had inherited wealth, the millennial opined
that the system is rigged. This spurious “white privilege” system somehow suppresses
black people who earn incomes considerably lower than whites.
Race-baiting while flaunting expensive material possessions,
millennials like to quote large income disparities between blacks and whites,
forgetting that income disparities exist among whites as well and not because
of any deliberate exploitation or skin color but because each individual, lucky
or unlucky, made personal choices that resulted in economic success or failure.
Let’s inject some economic sense into millennials’ warped
reality. Income and wealth are two different economic concepts. A person could,
of course, donate part or all of yearly income and part or all of wealth to
black needy families to assuage his/her “white guilt.” Nobody stopped him/her
from giving away to or sharing his/her home with a needy black family for the
sake of his/her perceived social injustices and “white privilege.” Cars and home
donations are quite welcome and part of philanthropy.
But government should not mandate how we split acquired
wealth nor should government have the right to confiscate it. I’ve experienced government
confiscation of wealth, private property, and even the nationalization of the
means of production. It did not end well at all. It resulted in the murder of millions
of innocents and decades of totalitarian exploitation of the proletariat masses
by the Communist Party leaders and apparatchiks.
This millennial was discounting millions of white and black
people who have worked hard to purchase their homes without direct financial
help from family. Many had accumulated wealth which they plan on leaving to
their heirs.
Charity begins at home and can extend to families who made
poor personal choices in life or decided to enter our country illegally,
seeking welfare, Social Security, and the government protection they could
never get in their countries. As hard as we may try to, we simply can’t afford
to make life better for billions of needy in the world.
The argument is expressed that we could feed, house, and
educate millions of poor people for what we spend on wars. The problem with
this argument is that the definition of poor is quite different for various
groups and populations. Another problem is that ordinary people cannot control
when wars are started, the few elites in power do, and they approve
expenditures for such wasteful efforts.
Life is never fair and nobody should have guarantees of an
easy egalitarian existence. Success, a good income, and wealth are not rights,
it is an opportunity to succeed or fail. Just because the education system has given
awards to every child for walking across a stage without tripping and
participation trophies, the harsh reality of life is quite different from
communist academic and progressive lobbyist rhetoric.
Bad luck and bad choices are contributors to failures, while
good luck and good choices to success. Hard work and choosing wisely are also
important. Saving money and studying hard are essential variables of success.
Blowing everything you earn on parties and a good time every weekend are formulas
for failure. Lack of personal responsibility, something no longer taught in
this country, contributes greatly to the “social injustices” radical communists
rail about.
Millennials in this country have become radicalized
communists while in college where they joined other like-minded individuals who
live high on the crony capitalist horse. IT professionals, academics, lobbyists for
non-profits, or staffing offices of influential politicians have the temerity
to lecture the rest of us about fairness, equality, and social justice.
Forcing social justice and equality by law or through
lobbying aggressiveness is not going to make people equal or successful because
humans are born with dissimilar IQs, diverse motivation levels, higher or lower
moral capacity, and different talents and abilities.
Affirmative action, quotas, and other forms of government-approved
and academia-sanctioned racial discrimination do not make everyone “equal” or “diverse,”
it just suppresses everyone to a lesser common denominator by lowering selection
standards and by hiring those less qualified. It will be interesting to see how
the Supreme Court will decide on the lawsuit brought on by Asians against
Harvard for discriminatory admission scoring.
