There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me, because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t -look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something – there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.
Regardless, he said that. If it has nothing to do with my own merits, then the fact I succeed and someone else doesn't has nothing to do with me. Therefore, "somebody else, made that happen!"
Plenty of people work hard at low-paying jobs and never get rich. Plenty of smart people work hard and make a LOT less that their WAY less bright managers / business owners. That's all Obama was saying there. Common sense really, you just choose not to comprehend.
If you worked hard and became a billionaire, it was NOT solely because of your brains and personal hard work, you had a HUGE pyramid of other brainy and hardworking people to get there. EMPLOYEES. CUSTOMERS. And lots of activities those people do that benefit business's are state subsidized.
And most of your employees and customers were educated at the expense of the community, that education cuts into training costs because you can assume at least minimal literacy. Increasing the supply of higher skilled population decreases the demand value of those skills, and keeps wages from skyrocketing. Employees and customers ride buses to work or spend money, or they drive on state-funded roads. Without bus subsidies, you couldn't get away with paying people wages so low they can't afford a car. All that's FREE SHIT that business's get that's hidden subsidies.
Employees I paid, Customers who would be worse off without my products.
You've just illustrated my point. My own merits, my intelligence and my hard work, had nothing to do with my success according to Obama.
Do you believe that Albert Einstein discovered special relativity because he was intelligent, or because he worked at the patent office or walked on government roads? The fact is, I made my business happen, even if you provided the catalyst (which I then paid my share for dozens of times over through taxes). The same way Michael Phelps parents can't say "WE JUST EARNED 18 GOLD MEDALS!!!!", no, Michael Phelps earned them. You just gave him DNA, and support for 18 years.
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