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Theme here that I think causes the kost resentment is capitalism in general. These bootstrap comments come across as disengenuous because ultimately capitalism is a ponzi scheme: it is not designed for everybody to make it. It is engineered to manufacture poverty, and that poverty is profitable.
Dez is lucky to have skills that can be converted to a highly exploitable field because without an NFL he wouldn't necessarily be thriving the same way with those same gifts. It'd be like saying "hey yall, if you work hard, be 6'3, run fast, and jump high, you might can make it too". Everybody can't follow his path to success.
We would need to overhaul our entire system to be one that put human needs first as a priority, and THEN allowed for a profit incentive. Until then, yeah I hope Dez's knee doesn't go out, or the high school senior behind him trying to work just as hard to make it.
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