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“Sometimes the rich kid was abused by his dad and it ate him up inside and he turned to drugs and died of an overdose at 25 years old. Sometimes the middle class kid came from a father that survived as a child in WW2 with undiagnosed metal scars to prove it. Sometimes the poor kid learns plumbing from his dad then starts and scales a business up to millions in sales.“

That is adorable, and plumbers aren’t poor.



Nobody said plumbers are poor.


"the poor kid learns plumbing from his dad." ..........


That doesn't mean his dad's a plumber, it means his dad showed him some basic plumbing and he took an interest in it that later turned into a career. That's fairly basic reading comprehension so the "........." like I'm an idiot isn't necessary when you're the one adding a bunch of additional context that isn't there.

And let's not forget it's a made up example.


Yeah if we want to speculate on what was left unsaid the only limit is our imagination. Maybe the dad is a wizard or a ninja or something.

It is not just a made up example, it is an outlier, which is why it is so adorable.




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