The "anything is possible" brigade

[Arkarians]

Anything is possible with enough hard work! Does anyone else find this phrase annoying as fuck?

You can become a billionaire like Elon Musk apparently, if you just simply work as hard as him.

Anyones child can excel in school, get top marks on all of their GCSEs and get into Oxbridge, if they bothered to work hard enough.

Anyone can achieve a high-flying career as a lawyer or doctor, if they just work hard enough.

The implication is that people who aren't massively successful lawyers, doctors, business owners, CEOs, etc are lazy fucks who couldn't be bothered to put the effort in? Not to mention how your background and/or current circumstances are a massive factor in success too.

Surely it doesn't matter how 'hard' you work, you could work 12 hours a day until the day you die and still never achieve Elon Musk level success. If you don't have the creativity, the right ideas, the luck and all the physical capacities for it, it will never happen.

Is there something Un-PC about acknowledging that people have different abilities, circumstances, levels of intelligence, etc, and not everyone is built for huge success?

@TakeTheOffPisteRoute

Nah

I dont agree that because numptie football fans are willing to pay money to watch over paid men kick a balk about that means they're adding value to society and deserve their wage.

They dont.

@Topgub I give up... I'm literally in agreement with you on this point but you somehow can't see that despite me stating it a number of times 🤦‍♂️

Have a good day 👍

Ugh, tell me about it. It's always from the ones who conceived on their first tries or had "happy accidents" 3 times in a row.

I think more people would agree with @TakeTheOffPisteRoute in that they are willing to part with cash to attend matches, buy merchandise and sky subscriptions.

Sure, it’s not that socially useful, but unless you restrict people’s freedom to spend on certain things (like we do for drugs), I’m not sure what you do about it (we all enjoy some non-socially useful things). I suppose a higher tax system aims to even things out more.

football, sport, entertainment can be a route out of poverty for some people though - and give people from poor countries more of a chance at a higher standard of living than they would otherwise have. So it’s not all negative.