And here on HN the socialists are in full force alleging the successful didn't earn it, government is the only solution, and minorities can't be successful on their own. I imagine we're being hit by an r/socialism brigade.

I have a graduate degree that I worked quite hard for, and paid tuition for while eating macaroni and cheese, paying a mortgage for a tiny and old home, and otherwise watching every penny and scraping for every dime.

Now I'm almost middle class in a city where you really have to be wealthy to live well. I take public transportation and constantly study to learn new things so I can get ahead and continue climbing the ladder of success.

And we have chumps like this author who don't care about the thought I put into choosing my vocations and studies, and thinks that if I'm successful then I owe it to everyone else who half-assed it or just didn't think or care, to provide for them as well.

Shame on socialists. Their philosophy is responsible for 100,000,000 deaths globally. Hitler was a full-throated socialist too. If you're going upend society and then force everyone to share everything when the vast majority of those can't do well with things they actually own, you destroyed your society's wealth, not the "greedy" people who wouldn't recreate it from scratch when they don't get to keep it.

Socialists still can't do it. See Venezuela. See Cuba. See North Korea. Shame on them.