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[–] CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ben Shapiro is big on taking personal responsibility for everything. Your life, your fault. Essentially.

It's interesting when he talks about his family background, very solidly middle class & it involved his dad playing piano at hotels, clubs for tips? Between that & his mother I guess it was enough to pay the bills.

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 19 points 23 hours ago

Because they grew up during a time when you could do that, and then pulled the ladder up behind them.

My step dad bought a farm and raced Ford Broncos for fun doing odds jobs out in a farming community. You'd be lucky to have a roof over your head and 3 meals a day doing odd jobs now.