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I don't understand mentality of the post.
if you are two paychecks away from being a millionaire, then you're definitely not remotely close to needing food subsidies.
If I'm two paychecks away from needing food subsidies, then two paychecks from now you are definitely not going to be anywhere close to a millionaire.
And if I am about to become a millionaire then obviously I'm going to defend the millionaire class. I'm about to be one of them.
The point is that nobody who earns a paycheck will ever be two paychecks away from owning a private jet - that's the point. You will never become a millionaire as a member of the labor class. You could work your entire life and not achieve that.
But lots of people are two paychecks away from not being able to afford to feed themselves.
This is about people who vote for Maga or AfD or whatever your local equivalent is.
Many people have the ideology that they too would become rich, if only there weren't all those regulations like paying for food of people who can't afford it (which again is not true, since they themselves only benefit from it) often citing stuff like bill gates (of course just not believing that he had more than enough venture capital even when called out)
In reality, opening a company is cheaper than ever, with very cheap options to prototype with 3d printing, handle costumer relations via the many payment processors, and provide it with the many Cloud it firms like hetzner.
So if they were living in the perfect world they believe in where things like monopolies didn't exist, they would have no problem becoming a successful entrepreneur.
But turbolibs be turbolibbing
But you are most probably not
The post is intended for people with less than 2k in the bank