I got mine

English Phrase phr en often _ used attributively Used to convey that one has achieved success and that others should be able to as well regardless of ability, background, or circumstances. en 15 Dec 91 19 22 Gay Community News 7 Kathyrin E. Diaz Telling Fortune Although the Wofford quote ["We don't need affirmative action — we're already here"] may have been a well-intended attempt to demonstrate that gay people can make it, it tends to reflect an "I got mine, too bad about you" sentiment reminiscent of Clarence Thomas. en 2008 Todd Boyd Bambi Higgins The Black Situation Comedy African Americans and Popular Culture https://www.google.com/books/edition/African_Americans_and_Popular_Culture_3/Evxm9Wd6P6EC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22an+I+got+mine%22&pg=PA227&printsec=frontcover 227 Strutting with pride over his nouveau-riche status, George [Jefferson of The Jeffersons] embodied and employed the trickle-down economic values of Reagan-era America, as well as an "I got mine," up-by-your-bootstraps ideology that was simultaneously mocked and celebrated in this version of a social sitcom. en 2010 Phil Edmonston Lemon-Aid New Cars and Trucks 2010 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Lemon_Aid_New_Cars_and_Trucks_2010/za0WmKkNOEwC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22an+I+got+mine%22&pg=PT357&printsec=frontcover 341 BMWs have excellent road manners, depreciate slowly, and have an “I got mine!” cachet that buyers find hard to resist. en 2014 Roger Lee Ray Progressive Faith and Practice: Thou Shalt Not Stand Idly By https://www.google.com/books/edition/Progressive_Faith_and_Practice/_4wNBQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22an+I+got+mine%22&pg=PT114&printsec=frontcover unnumbered Rand liked to call her view “objectivism” though some liken it to libertarianism. It reminds me more of an “I got mine” philosophy than of anything else. Most of us live in a world somewhere between the extremes of absolute selfishness and absolute self-abnegation. en Derived terms fuck you, I got mine See also en pull oneself up by one's bootstraps