POOR VS RICH: THE CONCEPT OF LUCK

POOR VS RICH: THE CONCEPT OF LUCK

A couple of days ago I noticed some celebrities reposting a tweet from Elon Musk on different social media platforms. The said tweet stated: "Working 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks in a year and people still calling me lucky". I have been suddenly struck by the memories of the 13 hours a day I used to spend in overcrowded and loud New York city's dining rooms serving tables, sometimes picking up two or three jobs to front rent and bills. Me and many others crawling in the dark, forced to overwork and break our backs at the service of some employers, are certainly not living in mansions, we aren't dancing on some tv show's stage and we don't have the financial privilege, aka boost, to face a first little investment and acquire investors able to turn our ideas into successful businesses. Let's be honest, Elon Musk wasn't born and raised in the ghetto surrounded by poverty and street violence; Elon Musk didn't have to attend low quality public schools like many others, but he was priviledged enough to go to private ones; Elon Musk was born in the skin color so liked by capitalists and people who gained their wealth and social status exploiting the life and freedom of dark skinned human beings; Elon Musk is the son of a Canadian model married to a pilot and entrepreneur part owner of an emerald mine in the Republic of Southafrica during apartheid's years (and if you don't have any clue about what apartheid was and how it worked, you have no fucking right to say a word in honor to this dickhead); Elon Musk didn't start from nothing but he came from a stable social status ensured by his family who, like I already mentioned before, wasn't certainly doing labour work in open fields or flipping burgers at Mc Donald's. I think that the fact that only celebrities or other entrepreneurs came in support to Musk is ridiculous, and that these people are getting on my fucking nerves with this nonsense lifestyle ideology "work hard, sleep less and you'll be successful". This is absolutely false because, like I've already said before, living to work and depriving your body of sleep is not a guarantee to success and richness. If that was the case, all people descending from black and indigenous slaves working for white people in plantations should be, at least, close to the elite of the world. I don't think that's the reality of life we are living. Not sleeping enough hours during the day is cause of loss of memory, it reduces the ability of focusing and brain coordination and, in some cases, can result in delirium. I also believe that it is absolutely wrong and indelicate to create false stereotypes and downgrade people already living in struggle, labeling them as "lacking motivation" and "loafers". I am sick and tired of hearing Dom Pérignon flavored tips coming from well-off motherfuckers tweeting by their house's pool, when we have folks who can't go on vacation to ensure they can keep up with the light bill payments, for example. Capitalism needs the poor, and this is the only reality the rich never talk about. Wealthy people don't give a fuck about the needy, like Elon Musk didn't give a fuck about his employees when he reopened Tesla's establishments going against the anti Covid measures taken by State governors. Just one of said establishments recorded 450 cases of people testing positive to Covid, 450 lives depending on the decisions of a jerk preaching the immediate ending of social distancing and the benefits of chloroquine, the same cure promoted by Trump and largely disproved by the scientific community and the vast amount of failures in Covid patients treated with said substance. Many would say "Elon Musk is trying to save the planet using sustainable energy", but he is also sending rockets into orbit to move human beings out of space and prevent extinction. For fuck's sake, how about trying to save this planet we are living on and forgetting about these multi million dollar and polluting strategies!? What the hell is in some people's brain!? You can cordially go fuck yourselves! Martina.