This reasoning is flawed at best and malicious at worst. Anyone can do anything "if they wanted". So why don't they? Don't you see how ridiculous that sounds? It's as if people don't have a life and real obligations preventing them, or something.
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Homeless people can go to Harvard [1]
This guy build a hotel for $9000 [2]
People familiar with statistics can consistently win the lottery [3]
* There are thousands if not millions of examples like this. Pointing to exceptions has never been a good argument. People who work in nail salons generally have a socioeconomic background that doesn't give them the privilege to be "wasting" time curing cancer. Suggesting that they can, or even should be doing this is insulting, at best.
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Homeless people can go to Harvard [1]
This guy build a hotel for $9000 [2]
People familiar with statistics can consistently win the lottery [3]
"Anyone can do it, why can't you?" /s
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Murray
[2] https://www.littlethings.com/9000-dream-home/
[3] http://www.businessinsider.com/4-time-lottery-winner-not-exa...
* There are thousands if not millions of examples like this. Pointing to exceptions has never been a good argument. People who work in nail salons generally have a socioeconomic background that doesn't give them the privilege to be "wasting" time curing cancer. Suggesting that they can, or even should be doing this is insulting, at best.