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I wish we lived in a society where the common belief was that a rising tide lifts all ships, instead of this pull yourself up by your bootstraps rugged individualism nonsense.
Funny thing about that one, the original meaning of that bootstrap idiom was to mean basically impossible, and yet it’s used about as unironically as trickle down economics was
I don't think I've heard the bootstrap phrase unironically in the past decade. I truly don't remember even hearing it outside of contexts like this on reddit or similar.
it's mostly a boogeyman.
Ah well, last guy who talked like that got his cranium evacuated by the CIA in broad daylight, so uh...
... yeah ...
who is coming to help you? or anyone?
until then all you can do is help yourself.
and if you refuse to do that... well you get what you get.