Surest method...get married before you have kids. Have parents who did the same.
“Surest method...get married before you have kids. Have parents who did the same.”
Exactly right. I would only add work hard and live within your means.
“Surest method...get married before you have kids. Have parents who did the same.”
Bears repeating (so I have!). Nowadays, college is the surest ticket to something, but that would be 6 figure debt. There are kids who will benefit from college, but there are a whole lot who end up spending four years (or more) partying, hooking up, and taking useless classes just to maintain their grades, all the while spending tons of money they don’t have.
What’s most amusing is hearing this advice from some poser whose main talent was gaming the system - somebody who bounced from one college to another, who apparently has no record of participation in anything substantive, whose grades have been hidden with serious intent, and whose financial arrangements are still a mystery (at least to me). Occidental and Columbia ain’t cheap - how the heck did he pay for them, and for his living expenses in two of the most expensive locations in the US?
But going back to your point, if he really wanted to help kids in the underclass, the best thing he could do is work on the 70% illegitimacy rate among blacks, the 50% illegitimacy rate among Hispanics, and even the 30% illegitimacy rate among whites. (Don’t know the numbers for Asians, but that in itself says something).
PS When some idiot tells me I’ve benefited from “white privilege”, I’ll agree - but I’ll point out it’s “white veil privilege” - my mom got married before she had kids, as did my grandmothers, as did their grandmothers, etc. And my wife and I have passed that down to our kids. The nice thing about “white veil privilege” is that it’s available to all races.
Spot on.
WHAT YOU SAID. However, in terms of college, the wage gap between high school and college has shrunk pretty substantially, to where college is not an automatic middle class ticket. Anymore it’s post-graduate degree, esp. engineering, law, accounting, business. The post-grad gap with mere college grads is widening.