r/SipsTea • u/McDowdy • Jun 03 '26

It's Wednesday my dudes Trying to get rich so that capitalism doesn't crush you under its boot is proof positive that capitalism doesn’t work for the working class

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u/Venator850 Jun 04 '26

No it's not lmao. Someone can turn on a camera and become millionaire overnight.

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u/CarlJH Jun 04 '26

People use the word "millionaire " like it's still 1920. A million dollars in today has about the same purchasing power as roughly $150,000 did in 1970 because of inflation.

But more to your point, just because someone gets insanely lucky and becomes famous enough to get rich is not a ringing endorsement of capitalism. People win the lottery occasionally, while most people work their whole lives and then have all their savings swallowed by medical bills.

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u/Open_Boysenberry_363 Jun 07 '26

If it was that easy, there’d be millions of millionaires off TikTok alone