Games sure mimic real life, don’t they? Especially the gap between the rich and poor. You get all that from a game? Why, yes.
So I paid $10 for an in app purchase today called “Double Cash” which grants you double cash in the very first round of this game I’m playing. It’s only $740 in the first round you get (there’s 65 rounds in Medium and 85 rounds in Hard). Basically, many rounds in the game. Anyhow, you don’t get any other money for all the other rounds, nor do you get extra points. All you get is double the starting cash. I didn’t think $740 would make a big difference. In each round, you normally earn a few hundred to several thousand dollars, to tens of thousands of dollars in the later rounds, so a mere $740 extra in one round doesn’t seem like much.
But it is. It matters that you get that $740 in the very FIRST round. When you play the game, you see that it makes a world of difference. It makes it allows you to purchase extra towers early on, it allows you to save more $$ early so, so then you’re able to get way more powerful towers early on. Normal game pre-purchase of double cash, I had to wait till round 20 or so to finally start getting the tower I need. But with that tiny cash infusion early on, I could get that tower in just round 5. Level Hard used to be really hard (hence I purchased Double Cash to get an edge). But now the game is soooo easy. With just that measly $740 head start.
Long story short, even having a tiny head start money-wise changes the whole landscape / ballgame / whatever you call it. Imagine not just getting a tiny head start but born wealthy? Heck, not even wealthy. Being born into a family with a few extra couple of thousand dollars and your children have a vastly different life.
I know I ramble and this post is long, but what I’m saying is it’s just so fucking sad and not fair how which family you’re born into can change your entire life. It changes the way you are brought up, it changes what school you can go to, it changes whether you have to start working at the ripe old age of 7 (I had to), it changes your health. Everything.
It’s not fair I was born into a poor family. My health has been affected. My opportunities (or lack thereof) due to $$. Life is just stacked against you when you’re poor and you grow up poor. Lived in a crappy neighborhood with shitty neighbors, went to a shitty school, received a shitty education, didn’t even have money to apply to college.
I had to worry about going to bed hungry, not having heat, not having shoes or umbrella without any holes in it. My classmates and peers didn’t have to worry about that.
I scraped my way in to college. Tons of loans of course. I had to work every fucking semester, 2-3 PT jobs at a time, so I could make enough money to eat. My grades suffered. While everyone else only had to worry about their classes and exams. It wasn’t until a year after I graduated that I finally had heat I could turn on. FML.
Long story short, I wouldn’t be so fucked up, mentally and physically sick if I wasn’t forced to grow up poor. I wouldn’t be so fucking depressed and constant thinking about suicide.
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But then are the posts from people who did grow up well off and came from affluent neighborhoods, with supportive parents, with all the luxuries and comforts, and good educations, are in great physical health … and they are suicidal too… it doesn’t usually make a difference. I do agree many times the start you have in life can greatly affect your life’s outcome, but even that can be in a good way or a bad way. It really has more to do with what you make of yourself from what’s inside you and for some they have immense inner strength and ambition and perseverance that others don’t, and I think that’s the difference in the outcome. There are people that strive and work hard to make something of themselves from what meager beginnings they come from and that’s why they succeed.
I’m not saying being rich means you won’t get depression. I’m just saying starting life in poverty is hard and sucks like shit.
It doesn’t matter what perseverance you have when the results of poverty and lack of nutrition cause you to become very sick by the time you’re 17. I’m talking seizures and shit.
I did ‘persevere.’ I did finish college. I did get a prestigious job. But none of that means shit when your body starts dying and you’re in and out of hospitals all of your 20s, eventually forcing you to quit your job, and you’re 100x sicker now than you were then. You spend your entire childhood in poverty and your entire adulthood being sick. THAT is what poverty does to you. Perseverance means shit when you’re sick. And no, most people don’t understand me when I say sick. Not the “I got the cold/flu” sick. You have no idea what it’s like to wake up sick every single day of your life.
I know you mean well and to be uplifting and all that. But when someone says “it’s about perseverance” it’s like someone saying to a depressed person “just snap out of it.” It isn’t easy like that. I have major health issues that I have to deal with on a daily basis. Things you and most other people would have no clue on.
My post was my anger in being born into poverty and how hard my entire life has been. You have no idea how hard I worked to get out of poverty. I had to work 100x harder than the average person. I had to start working as a child, when most children are at home playing with their Nintendo’s.
What I don’t like is people pointing the finger and saying “well if you’re poor, it’s your fault” “If you haven’t made it in life, it’s because you just haven’t worked hard enough”, etc. which could not be further from the truth.
Yes it does!…. money would fix a lot of my issues right now. I am beginning to think I just don’t DO LIFE well…. like half the time I don’t know what the hell I am doing… and it sure shows lol but fuck it’s not like life comes with an instruction booklet and school doesn’t teach you what you really need to know to make it in the world… it’s all trial and error…well mostly error for me and costly error at that…. when I die whether by suicide or other means I probably won’t have any money, only debt for my family to inherit.
School doesn’t teach us anything other than to be good little docile slave monkeys to our low wage jobs.
Sorry _darkness I don’t know of your health issues. That’s horrible, and you’re right and your poor health effects everything of course. I thought you were coming from a very generic standpoint when it comes to poverty so I apologize…. and my “yes it does !” has to do with my agreement with your statement “starting life in poverty sucks shit”.
This is why I wish I was unborn. Wouldn’t have to suffer any of this shit. Sigh.
Well work wise I have always told them to go fry ice when it came to my health issues… I basically told them my health and wellbeing come first. It has to. I mean there are some conditions you can’t work through…. but they don’t care. They just need a beating heart in the seat 5 days a week…all that matters is that not how great you do your job… bastards.