Rags to riches stories why they tick me off.

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Neither bill gates nor Leon musk were ever poor, much less in rags.     To manufacture rags to rich story to divert the attention of those in rags from the reality that odds against their gaining any semblance of riches are worse in the U.S. than in many other places is nothing but opiat for those in rags.


As to encouraging those in rags to attain riches, they are much better encouraged by actual chances than by fictional chances. 

Granted.

I just don't see the point of discouraging young people. Working to bettering their chances is one thing - whining about how it could be better is another.