"Equal opportunity"
Sam Walton's parents were farmers. Larry Ellison was raised in a two-bedroom apartment in Chicago after his unmarried mother gave him to an uncle and aunt.
Go here, and look at the entry for "what was your first job."
The issue is not whether poverty exists, or whether the poor have a harder time pulling themselves up by their bootstraps than middle-class people do. Obviously, that's true. That will always be true.
The issue is whether or not you can make a valid judgment that somehow the wealthy have not earned or deserved what they have, and then move on to the next obvious phase of confiscation.