(September 24, 2016 at 4:12 pm)abaris Wrote:(September 24, 2016 at 4:01 pm)RobertE Wrote: Working hard is the key to success. Not working at all is the key to failure.
Yeah, but sometimes the key doesn't fit the lock. Otherwise people slaving away at two or three jobs to scratch a living would be a success. Which they aren't. There are also numerous studies on upwards mobility if you're born into poor families. And no, I won't look them up right here and now. Move your own ass, they're in the public domain. If you're at all interested, besides providing us with hot air, that is.
In short it's the usual empty talking point to do away with the realities of the world we're living in.
I'll tell you my story later on. You will find that is not a typical "white mans privilege", story either. You will find that I was in a similar sort of position as the poor (put it this way, the poor in the USA have access to nice clothes, portable telephones and drugs if need be, for me, my family didn't have a car, a VCR, not even a standard telephone until I was around 18 years of age)in the USA except I kept myself virtually on the straight and narrow.