Tale from the slowlane:
My grandparents is basically the tip of the spear of the Slowlane.
My grandfather, an inventor. Long story short his inventions made hundreds of millions for the USSR government if we account for inflation. Later, he became a chief technical officer in a factory which had 1200 employees total, and of those, 500 were "technical staff" - engineers, mechanics, servicepeople and the like which he was managing directly. He made the factory very profitable, somewhere in Estonia. Of course, he has a PhD.
Then his wife.
At age 22, she was a manager of a food production plant, and the only thing I know of her then is that she was a director of chemistry in that plant, and that plant won awards, and was consistently visited by USSR ministry regalia. To be "from ministry" in USSR was the highest privilege, not because you were the most useful/renown, but because one who was in the ministry could bribe anyone into agreement with you, because "if you won't agree/bribe me, your boss will come to you and give you a dismissal notice/we will close your factory down".
Anyway.
I'm with the for a few weeks, a stupid choice I should've avoided and these smart AF people tell me:
"The only way to become rich is to be a member of a clan (like a Rockfeller clan), and be selected to get all the wealth".
"Most people who drive in Bentleys and the like expensive cars are the ones whose parents stolen the most"...
"If you are an entrepreneur, the only way to become rich is by scamming and lying to people... You just have to do it" (from my grandfather).
And then, when questioning about notion of providing value to somebody:
"Do you know what Bill Gates you talk of does? He has infected half of the world with Ebola and other infections. It is his arms' deed." ... "In fact, Bill Gates has created combat viruses that specifically kill Russian people."
"The only way to get rich is to help very rich steal, and they will pay you percentage in the process."
"We should've had good retirement, but bloody Americans have FORCED (said loudly), Ukrainian Nazis to go and kill Russians" (both parents are from USSR Moscow, but now are living in Ukraine... So hate towards Ukrainians is real).
"You say that I'm watching TV 3 hours a day and what, can am I not allowed to watch TV? This is my right. I'm not broke because I watch TV, I'm broke because of the war Americans have created".
Their current situation is that they have fled from Ukraine to live in Ireland as Ukrainian refugees, and my grandfather is very much proud that he gets his 900€/mo welfare. In fact, it used to be that he mocked me for not having welfare, because "when he has welfare he is has better life than I do".
I should work, but F*ck, is this annoying.
My grandparents is basically the tip of the spear of the Slowlane.
My grandfather, an inventor. Long story short his inventions made hundreds of millions for the USSR government if we account for inflation. Later, he became a chief technical officer in a factory which had 1200 employees total, and of those, 500 were "technical staff" - engineers, mechanics, servicepeople and the like which he was managing directly. He made the factory very profitable, somewhere in Estonia. Of course, he has a PhD.
Then his wife.
At age 22, she was a manager of a food production plant, and the only thing I know of her then is that she was a director of chemistry in that plant, and that plant won awards, and was consistently visited by USSR ministry regalia. To be "from ministry" in USSR was the highest privilege, not because you were the most useful/renown, but because one who was in the ministry could bribe anyone into agreement with you, because "if you won't agree/bribe me, your boss will come to you and give you a dismissal notice/we will close your factory down".
Anyway.
I'm with the for a few weeks, a stupid choice I should've avoided and these smart AF people tell me:
"The only way to become rich is to be a member of a clan (like a Rockfeller clan), and be selected to get all the wealth".
"Most people who drive in Bentleys and the like expensive cars are the ones whose parents stolen the most"...
"If you are an entrepreneur, the only way to become rich is by scamming and lying to people... You just have to do it" (from my grandfather).
And then, when questioning about notion of providing value to somebody:
"Do you know what Bill Gates you talk of does? He has infected half of the world with Ebola and other infections. It is his arms' deed." ... "In fact, Bill Gates has created combat viruses that specifically kill Russian people."
"The only way to get rich is to help very rich steal, and they will pay you percentage in the process."
"We should've had good retirement, but bloody Americans have FORCED (said loudly), Ukrainian Nazis to go and kill Russians" (both parents are from USSR Moscow, but now are living in Ukraine... So hate towards Ukrainians is real).
"You say that I'm watching TV 3 hours a day and what, can am I not allowed to watch TV? This is my right. I'm not broke because I watch TV, I'm broke because of the war Americans have created".
Their current situation is that they have fled from Ukraine to live in Ireland as Ukrainian refugees, and my grandfather is very much proud that he gets his 900€/mo welfare. In fact, it used to be that he mocked me for not having welfare, because "when he has welfare he is has better life than I do".
I should work, but F*ck, is this annoying.
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