Originally Posted by merlinextraligh

It's actually not. There's a very simple way to do it. Go to school, study hard. Anyone in this country that wants a college education can get it. And having a college education greatly increases your potential to be monetarily comfortable, if not affluent.

Many people make lousy choices, and the collective weight of those bad choices get them to bad places. That doesn't mean you can't succeed if you make good choices.

I get the data, that where your born as a statistical matter has a signficant influence on where you end up, on a population basis. That in no way means that an idividual cannot control to great degree how successful they are by the choices they make.