saw your comment first yea I like the point you make sm that I'm curious to start this manwha
be forewarned, it is VERY gruesome to read, most chapters begin with a trigger warning for a very good reason, there’s a lot of torture and a LOT of rape, so if that’s not your style then don’t read, but instead just research and read up on the time when south korea was under a dictatorship, as that is where this series gets its dictatorship background from
Exactly this! You’ve worded it perfectly, thank you. it was quite hard for me to read the prince’s response. And funny too that someone who’s never had to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” thinks thats all it takes to succeed. What a joke. Also! I didn’t know that the stoey was based when SK was in a dictatorship it makes a lot of sense.
Bless your soul for this
“pull yourself up by the bootstraps” was originally created to mean “to attempt something ludicrously far-fetched or even impossible”, because when you think about the mechanics of trying to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, IT IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE!!! IT IS A PHRASE MEANT TO MOCK THOSE WHO TRY TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE, NOT TO TRY AND INSPIRE PEOPLE TO BE TOTALLY SELF RELIANT AND PLACE ALL THE BLAME OF THEM NOT BEING SUCCESSFUL ON THEMSELVES!! Especially in a world like the one in this story, as the male host points out, some people literally cannot access higher levels of knowledge and education simply because of where they were born, who their parents are, what their socioeconomic background, they are banned from doing so, so it is quite literally impossible for them to access those resources unless they do so illegally, and that is true for many people around the world today, even in developed nations. To completely dismiss things like socioeconomic background, family wealth and connections, disability, race, gender identity and sex, and also where you were born and raised (because someone born in a very remote rural area that doesn’t have the learning resources available to someone born in a highly populated city is going to have a vastly different experience and opportunities available to them), is completely ignorant and privileged and shows how little you actually know about how the world works. It’s not what you know but WHO you know, I know this because I have spent my whole life seeing that in action, my older sister, my older cousin, myself, and one of my younger cousins, all got our first proper jobs because our family knew the right people, people who were willing to hire an inexperienced 16 year old because they were close friends or colleagues of our parents. And I have seen that happen so many other times in different situations but it’s still the same, WHO you know gets you much farther than what you know, unfortunately