Many people would be surprised how many homeless people have (hard science) degrees or used to be very succesful. Bad luck, medical debt, (mental-)health issues, company goes bankrupt due to circumstances beyond your control, etc.
The world isn't fair. You can work really hard, and end up in the oven of a concentration camp, despite what the slogan above the gate said.
Of course, if you're a relatively talentless hack who's won the equivalent of the lottery despite not really deserving it that much, it's nicer to think that you deserve it because of your inate talent. Vanity. It's the Devil's favourite sin.
Also without any warning or planning -- could be cancer, could be a freak accident. You never know if/when a medical emergency might happen, so you're always in an odd state of financial limbo even though it may not appear that way. You could be doing just fine squirreling away a few hundred or thousand here and there and one trip to the ER will quickly take back most of that nest egg. Even with insurance, it's absurd how much you can still be on the hook for. What's the alternative though, forgo medical treatment?
Master's degree in microbiology with a serious disability here. If not for my wife, I'd have been on the streets since it took 23 doctors to get a diagnosis. This lady can get fucked.
If I cared any less about what she thinks I wouldn't have commented about not caring what she thinks. Really I only care because a lot of old ladies will parrot this nonsense.
Every now and then, there's an article about some dumb shit a person on The View says. My reaction is always surprise that The View is still even a thing.
It's a fossilized turd. My guess is, there's so much fierce competition for eyeballs these days, if the advertisers think 200 people are actually watching it, they get pretty excited.
I don't really understand who their target audience is. They would've been conservative 20 years ago, but today I think they just cater to saying whatever middleclass boomers want to hear.
A combination of that and knowing that comments like that will get articles like this, garnering them more attention and views. Ragebait may have become a recent Big Problem in the algorithms of social media, but it's been around forever. Howard Stern and Jerry Springer built their fortunes on it.
Fuck the view lol. Everyone that gets a job on that show turns into a jackass, braying their bullshit at top volume. It's the worst side of television.
