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Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler
The meritocracy is self-perpetuating in that professionals marry other professionals and their kids become professionals and marry other professionals, and so on. But if you take 2 children of lawyers (for example) my rule applies. I am not saying take a kid from a trailer park vs a kid from Mount Royal.
However, being willing to take a risk is the big thing. There are many smart and hard working people who are scared to step out of the box. If you are an employee, even as a professional, you are not going to become rich - you will be well to do, but not "rich". You have to start a business (can be a professional business), and then risk the gains of that in other ventures, and so on. Taking a risk is the big deal.
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Of course, taking a risk is easier when you have something (or someone) to fall back on, which again has everything to do with where you start. It also almost always means that you have something tangible to risk (money most likely). When someone is working for a low wage and paying most of their money to a landlord, it is hard to come up with the collateral to make such risks.