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by sacnoradhq 1182 days ago
That's rude and unhelpful.

Read the linked material. The metaphor of bootstraps was an impossible and Quixotic feat like perpetual motion that became coopted as a celebrated mythology of "self-made". There is no such animal, friend.

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It was in the 50's, not now. The world looked a bit fucking different than now.