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Originally Posted by Brannigans Law
A big problem is being born in the right circumstance. Are you born in Africa or China or India? If you are, odds are that you're born into abject poverty. If Mr Wonderful had been born to a poor family in Uganda or Congo he's more likely to have become a child soldier than a millionaire d bag. But hey if you win the birth lottery and are born in north america, spin the wheel again!
Are you born to a rich white family? No? Well, good luck. If Mr Wonderful had been born to a poor family in Chicago surrounded by poverty and gang violence, odds are he'd be just another statistic and been shot or wound up in jail due to drug/gang violence.
Social mobility and inequality aren't the problem of the rich until it becomes so out of proportion the 99% put down their tools and pick up torches and weapons.
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Seriously dude? Kevin O'Leary's parents divorced when he was very young, his dad was a salesman who died early in his life, and his mother was a seamstress.
Some poor family in Chicago's problems are not caused by the 1%. They're caused by unstable family situations and a lack of emphasis on education. Social mobility is the problem of the person who wants to be upwardly mobile. And if a person commits to that, it's going to be very hard for them to be denied.
But if you want to be a person that comes home from a 15/hour job, smokes a bowl, eats some Raman noodles and watches Archer, then yeah. It's going to be tough to move up. The great fallacy here is that somehow it's your right to move up the social and economic ladder. It's not. You have the ability to, but if you're not going to put the time in to learning the skills required for it, you're going to languish at the bottom and bitch about the guy from Dragon's Den.