In Streets of Gold, Amreica’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success, economists Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan consider the economic trajectory of immigrants to the United States over time.
The basic problem is that we have created, and wallow in, an entire culture of victimhood and grievance instead of a culture of agency and achievement. The deal in so much of life now is to muscle your way to the head of the Entitlement Trough by wailing, whether truthfully or not, what a victim you are because you're black or trans or gay or Islamic or fat or poor or emotionally fragile or "vulnerable" or blah, blah, blah. Until we -- all of us -- go back to getting ahead by what you can get your backside in gear to bring to the marketplace, rather than by how maudlin your sob story is, we're going to stay right where we are.
Among the best things my parents ever did for me was let me know, without a lot of sentiment or goo, that excuses don't cut it. Getting A's on your report card cuts it. If I've made any headway in life, learning that lesson was a big part of it.
All are born into a state of adversity, into an existence which demands participation in order to survive and eventually achieve a degree of success. The greater the rate of participation the greater the opportunities for a chance at procuring greater success. This natural process begins within the human family for this is the place where knowledge of reality begins for all.
I remember at the age of three, everyone I saw and observed being energetically busy all day. By the age of five I believed my parents made and provided things for other people and that activity made everyone happy. By seven, I understood that my parents had a profession which other people invested in. And they loved doing that effort, lived to do that effort, from 7 a.m. to 7 a.m. seven days a week.
And I remember clearly that when something prohibited my parents from doing their activity, that they were unhappy and exerted even greater effort to overcome that prohibition, until it was overcome, and normal life resumed.
For the past fifty years I have exerted energy every day doing that which I love, which I cannot live without, because it is built on a foundation of reordering adversity until something is created which contributes to others' energetic efforts.
An energetic effort purposed to produce responsible action to honor someone else, must first exorcise a discipline that only allows natural emotions and feelings to be a byproduct and not a component of that True Love.
If you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life and you'll have everything you need.
What Paul writes here is obviously true to all normals which means a large majority of Americans. To the leftists and race hustlers, no argument, logic or facts will change their basic axiom that the only reason that black Americans lag behind is white supremacy. (Today called systemic racism) Tjherefore the only thing to do is fight them.
The basic problem is that we have created, and wallow in, an entire culture of victimhood and grievance instead of a culture of agency and achievement. The deal in so much of life now is to muscle your way to the head of the Entitlement Trough by wailing, whether truthfully or not, what a victim you are because you're black or trans or gay or Islamic or fat or poor or emotionally fragile or "vulnerable" or blah, blah, blah. Until we -- all of us -- go back to getting ahead by what you can get your backside in gear to bring to the marketplace, rather than by how maudlin your sob story is, we're going to stay right where we are.
Among the best things my parents ever did for me was let me know, without a lot of sentiment or goo, that excuses don't cut it. Getting A's on your report card cuts it. If I've made any headway in life, learning that lesson was a big part of it.
Can't remember who wrote it, but someone wrote a piece asking "Is 'Whiteness' an Anti-Semitic Trope?"
(Look at what's derided as "white supremacy" https://www.newsweek.com/smithsonian-race-guidelines-rational-thinking-hard-work-are-white-values-1518333 All things that make one successful in America...)
All are born into a state of adversity, into an existence which demands participation in order to survive and eventually achieve a degree of success. The greater the rate of participation the greater the opportunities for a chance at procuring greater success. This natural process begins within the human family for this is the place where knowledge of reality begins for all.
I remember at the age of three, everyone I saw and observed being energetically busy all day. By the age of five I believed my parents made and provided things for other people and that activity made everyone happy. By seven, I understood that my parents had a profession which other people invested in. And they loved doing that effort, lived to do that effort, from 7 a.m. to 7 a.m. seven days a week.
And I remember clearly that when something prohibited my parents from doing their activity, that they were unhappy and exerted even greater effort to overcome that prohibition, until it was overcome, and normal life resumed.
For the past fifty years I have exerted energy every day doing that which I love, which I cannot live without, because it is built on a foundation of reordering adversity until something is created which contributes to others' energetic efforts.
An energetic effort purposed to produce responsible action to honor someone else, must first exorcise a discipline that only allows natural emotions and feelings to be a byproduct and not a component of that True Love.
If you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life and you'll have everything you need.
What Paul writes here is obviously true to all normals which means a large majority of Americans. To the leftists and race hustlers, no argument, logic or facts will change their basic axiom that the only reason that black Americans lag behind is white supremacy. (Today called systemic racism) Tjherefore the only thing to do is fight them.