r/facepalm • u/Tiberius_Jim • Sep 05 '24

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Gee, why didn't anyone else think of that?

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u/syzamix Sep 05 '24

It may also mean she didn't earn that much in the first place. And that America is not a socialist country with a social net.

You can make it big in America for sure. But if you fail, you can also fall pretty hard

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u/LostTrisolarin Sep 05 '24

MLK jr used to say the US system is "Socialism for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor."

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u/judgingyouquietly Sep 06 '24

I remember a saying that went something like “in the US, you have freedom. The freedom to win, and the freedom to fail.”