Everyday I read some study about inequality of income or wealth between some group or another. It’s largely meaningless, IMO. It creates the false premise that something is wrong and needs to be “fixed”.
If a nursery school teacher and a doctor don’t have the same income and wealth is that something that needs to be “fixed”? I saw a study that showed that black women had more degrees than black men and made less than white women with no degree.
These are just statistics with no meaning other than to create yet one more cause for victimization.
Not everyone that gets a college degree wins the lottery regarding increased wages. Having some degree is just helpful from a personal knowledge standpoint and as a basic requirement for the job market.
Having a BA in Black Studies, a Master’s in Black History and a PhD in Black Education doesn’t mean that there is necessarily a high paying job that was looking for those credentials.
I got a BA in Political Science because I was interested (not in politics) in political systems around the world and how they worked. I didn’t think I was going to make more money just because I had a political science degree.
How many white women major in Psychology? Does that usually lead to a lucrative job the minute they leave college? No.
In my case I went to law school for a year and then switched into an MBA program in International Business.
I largely did that to be marketable and because it was still a subject that I was interested in.
You can’t compare people who get an engineering degree or a computer programming degree with someone studying black socialization and expect the incomes to be the same.
You can become a plumber or electrician and not even have a college degree and you will make more than many, many colleges degrees. The statistics here mean nothing.
The statistic that matters when comparing income and wealth is what are you doing that should create wealth but isn’t? If you aren’t actually doing anything that could be expected to create high income and/or wealth then what are we even talking about? “Micro-aggression”? “Intersectionality”?
IMO, that’s ridiculous. You will be going down those roads forever and nothing will change because you aren’t doing anything that could be expected to change. You don’t need to be a “social justice warrior”, always fighting for some “noble” cause. Don Quixote is a fictional character.
If you want to build wealth, invest. If you want high income, enter a field known for high income, marry someone who is also doing the same, have few children and you too will have high income.
There is no secret here. Working as a single mom with multiple kids, for the government, in social work is not a path to high wealth or high income. Not understanding capitalism, finances, investing, entrepreneurship isn’t going to help. Pushing for “equality of results” isn’t going to work just as it hasn’t ever worked anywhere.
Social protest doesn’t make billionaires (nor should focusing on billionaires be a goal). Use a little common sense and you will end up in the middle-class and don’t worry too much about the extremes. There will always be extremes. Take away poverty (not entirely possible) and you will still have crime.
There will always be fewer people at the top. That’s why it’s called the top. The economy is an expanding pie, however much the top ends up with, it isn’t at your expense and it’s a result of the system that brought the living standard up for everyone. As they say “don’t kill the goose that laid the golden egg”. Focus, be rational, be informed. We don’t need to keep talking about racism, bigotry, inequality for the next 200 years.
If you don’t like black people, don’t marry one. If you do fall in love with someone who happens to be black and that happens over and over in our society, soon there will be nothing to talk about. Everyone will be the same with slightly different skin color and that’s about it.
Now if there is inequality of results it will just be because that’s the way humans are. It’s not something to “fix”.
If a nursery school teacher and a doctor don’t have the same income and wealth is that something that needs to be “fixed”? I saw a study that showed that black women had more degrees than black men and made less than white women with no degree.
These are just statistics with no meaning other than to create yet one more cause for victimization.
Not everyone that gets a college degree wins the lottery regarding increased wages. Having some degree is just helpful from a personal knowledge standpoint and as a basic requirement for the job market.
Having a BA in Black Studies, a Master’s in Black History and a PhD in Black Education doesn’t mean that there is necessarily a high paying job that was looking for those credentials.
I got a BA in Political Science because I was interested (not in politics) in political systems around the world and how they worked. I didn’t think I was going to make more money just because I had a political science degree.
How many white women major in Psychology? Does that usually lead to a lucrative job the minute they leave college? No.
In my case I went to law school for a year and then switched into an MBA program in International Business.
I largely did that to be marketable and because it was still a subject that I was interested in.
You can’t compare people who get an engineering degree or a computer programming degree with someone studying black socialization and expect the incomes to be the same.
You can become a plumber or electrician and not even have a college degree and you will make more than many, many colleges degrees. The statistics here mean nothing.
The statistic that matters when comparing income and wealth is what are you doing that should create wealth but isn’t? If you aren’t actually doing anything that could be expected to create high income and/or wealth then what are we even talking about? “Micro-aggression”? “Intersectionality”?
IMO, that’s ridiculous. You will be going down those roads forever and nothing will change because you aren’t doing anything that could be expected to change. You don’t need to be a “social justice warrior”, always fighting for some “noble” cause. Don Quixote is a fictional character.
If you want to build wealth, invest. If you want high income, enter a field known for high income, marry someone who is also doing the same, have few children and you too will have high income.
There is no secret here. Working as a single mom with multiple kids, for the government, in social work is not a path to high wealth or high income. Not understanding capitalism, finances, investing, entrepreneurship isn’t going to help. Pushing for “equality of results” isn’t going to work just as it hasn’t ever worked anywhere.
Social protest doesn’t make billionaires (nor should focusing on billionaires be a goal). Use a little common sense and you will end up in the middle-class and don’t worry too much about the extremes. There will always be extremes. Take away poverty (not entirely possible) and you will still have crime.
There will always be fewer people at the top. That’s why it’s called the top. The economy is an expanding pie, however much the top ends up with, it isn’t at your expense and it’s a result of the system that brought the living standard up for everyone. As they say “don’t kill the goose that laid the golden egg”. Focus, be rational, be informed. We don’t need to keep talking about racism, bigotry, inequality for the next 200 years.
If you don’t like black people, don’t marry one. If you do fall in love with someone who happens to be black and that happens over and over in our society, soon there will be nothing to talk about. Everyone will be the same with slightly different skin color and that’s about it.
Now if there is inequality of results it will just be because that’s the way humans are. It’s not something to “fix”.