>Know what's out of your control? That stray bullet that left
>you or a loved one paralyzed, that drunk driver that smashed
>into your ride leaving you fucked up. Shit like that is out of
>your control.
>
>Pretty much everything else is squarely on you.
>
>How you proceed in life is yours to own. Whether you get
>ahead, barring life altering events completely outside of your
>sphere of influence, is determined by how much work you're
>willing to put into it and what sacrifices you're willing to
>make.
>
>You determine your level of success. Are you willing to do
>what it takes to get out of the hole or are you going to sit
>there and complain about it?
>

I saw it happen few times where someone's skin tone gave them an opportunity that someone else would not receive. I worked in a restaurant when I was young bussing tables. This couple comes in and I buss the table they're about to sit in. Cool, nothing happens. White guy that is a good dude mind you does the same thing. They see his plight and ask why he's working here. He shouldn't be working there and offers him a rather lucrative job offer. He takes it and the rest is history. Good for him and he's my friend to this day.

The same thing happens at uni except for this time it's a pristine pure white sorority sister that meets a successful businesswoman. We served the same people but these people found something in common, i.e. cultural reasonance, with the people that served them and it lead to an opportunity that advanced their world.

I'm not saying don't grind but let's not ignore the elephant in the room here. We know it exists because it happens all the time.

>It's always been that way though. The auto industry replaced
>line workers with robotics and many other industries now rely
>heavily on industrial automation to get the jobs done that
>once required people. Those jobs HAVE been erased. This is why
>the US is no longer a manufacturing center like it was decades
>ago. What you're talking about is the reality we've been
>living in at least all of my life.
>
>And if it's not going to a robot, it's being shipped to a
>third world country where human labor is dirt cheap. This is
>the reason you get an Indian on the phone when you call up
>almost any large corporation for support nowadays and why so
>much of our shit says "Made in China".
>
>Face it, the world you're postulating about is the same world
>you live in.

This is not the same world I live in because I don't work at these jobs. The general apathy towards the plight of others and excitement towards this scenario is what separates things now from back then. We went way too far championing the stock market and this push for constant profit at the expense of people's lives.