The Exigent Duality
How to Succeed - 14:09 CST, 7/02/20 (Sniper)
For all black-- or any color skin-- youths out there in America, who feel that "the system", whatever that means, is somehow nebulously prejudiced or stacked against them, here is a simple step-by-step guide on how to get yourself into the top twenty five-to-one percent of all wage earners in the country:

  1. Sort the "Bureau of Labor and Statistics" data by annual mean wage, descending.

  2. Pick one of the hundreds of professions which make around the sixty thousand mark, or more. The country's median wage is in the thirty thousands, so sixty grand is good money.

  3. Let's pick "plumber" as an example. It pays fifty nine thousand, eight hundred on median. Search for "how to become plumber".

  4. Read one of the first hits, which explains that it costs a maximum of three thousand dollars of schooling, and five year's work experience to become fully-licensed. You will be earning wages during that entire time.

  5. If you graduate from high school at age eighteen, you will be a master plumber by age twenty eight. If you start tucking away money into a Roth IRA at eighteen, you will have millions of dollars saved by age sixty five.

  6. Search for "how to find a financial planner". Skim one of hundreds of articles. Meet with one, and they will set you up for retirement at your target age.

  7. Profit.

Again, these steps can be performed by anyone, absolutely regardless of skin color. They take about five minutes to do, and can be accomplished for free at any public library, or at any McDonald's by ordering a small fry for a couple of bucks. It's called "capitalism"-- and it's amazing.

These steps can also be followed to make significantly more than a plumber too: the only ceiling is how ambitious you want to be. Always do a five second cost-benefit equation between the cost of schooling for a profession, and the median wage. Don't be a knucklehead and spend tens of grand on underwater basket weaving.

This also requires that you graduate from high school. Don't get mixed in with the wrong crowd. Do not commit any crimes. Do not go to prison. Do not have unprotected sex. Stay clean, and focused on your goals.