[HN Gopher] Men Who Made America's Self-Made Man
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       Men Who Made America's Self-Made Man
        
       Author : Petiver
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2025-11-25 21:12 UTC (4 days ago)
        
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       | rimbo789 wrote:
       | Excellent essay
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       | Few myths in our society are as dangerous and as anti-social as
       | the "self made man". No one is self made and all achievements are
       | the result of groups of people working together.
        
       | hacker_yacker wrote:
       | Anyone who claims to be self made is dishonest to themselves. "No
       | man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
       | continent, a part of the main" -John Donne
        
       | ramesh31 wrote:
       | Go back a few generations for just about every wealthy family in
       | the US, and it's nothing but slave labor building on land and
       | resources stolen from the indians. It's the uncomfortable answer
       | behind the question of "Why do WASPs own everything?". The whole
       | "self-made" myth is nothing but a byproduct of white guilt all
       | the way down.
        
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