You're creating a false dichotomy here. Imagine there's two generals creating a battle plan. One demands a direct charge into the enemy's strongest point. The second fires back, "no! That's suicide!" The first responds, "that's an excuse to lose, an excuse to not even try!"

There are other important things to do. People ought to put their effort into better endeavors, into things on a small scale that they can actually and readily influence and improve. Starting a family. Helping their local community. Building self-sufficiency. Over-focusing on money has the potential to stifle more genuine goods.

Nobody here is saying to not try. Rather, the attitude is that you should direct your efforts elsewhere, away from wealth, away from material success. You don't strike where your enemy is strongest.

Delicious Yooper mountain snake, eh

Behold, one of your betters. Look at what wealth does for people and feel your jealousy grow.

Nice Poor Yoop Walk today

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Big ski jump

Fog is free. #DailyPoor

What driving through a poor man's area is like

My town's gas station is pump then pay. Talked to the store manager today:

"How often does someone pump then drive off without paying?"
"Oh, maybe a few times a year."

Poor towns are universally terrible places to live, eh?

Spoke with a young lady today who's a Walmart cashier in a small, poor town. Her and her fiance are 18 and 19, respectively. Both work at Walmart. They saved up money for 3 months and used it as the down payment for a house, where they now live.

I'm in Illinois for the day, some 50 miles south of Chicago, to celebrate my Grandmother's birthday.

Just drove past a billboard that advertised "affordable houses starting at $350k."

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I bet today they'd want 250k for the home on the top left