• baines@lemmy.cafe
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    4 hours ago

    An acorn can only become an oak tree but a person is not born with their future path preordained

    modern people love thinking this but most people never move even 50 miles from where they were born and the single largest indictor of ‘success’ in life is your parents income

    for example being born in gaza or ukraine right now is pretty damn bleak

    if it were my choice to be born there or not, i’d pass

    • spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app
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      2 hours ago

      You’re both correct, but the underlying point is it’s not guaranteed if you’re a human in Ukraine vs an acorn in the forest. HUGE difference, and only a clown would pretend they’re equivalent.