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It's not luck. My parents busted their ass off to get out of the country.

Same as our cleaner. She illegally immigrated into Mexico first, but realized how racist Mexicans were against Central Americans, so she decided to work her way so that she could get into the US. This isn't luck, it's hard work. She didn't accidentally find herself in the US.

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There are people who work just as hard, if not harder who don’t escape terrible situations. If you don’t believe that I don’t know what to tell ya.

Your cleaner lady is such a silly example. If she was deported would you say she didn’t work hard enough to prevent it? Lol

And even if they did work hard your situation is entirely luck regardless since well, you didn’t help them escape with your hard work, yet you benefited.

Apparnently you don't know what "entirely" means.

By your definition, people are poor because of bad luck. I guess according to you, there's nothing anyone can do except rely on luck. Good luck to you, then!

I’ll take the extra luck, thanks!

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