If being born prosperous wasn't a great aid to growing up prosperous, then prosperous people would do everything they could to see to it their children had the best of everything. In fact, poor people wouldn't bother to sacrifice the way they do to try to give their kids the best they can afford.
Sure, you can always point out a few exceptional people who've risen from impoverished origins, and children of luxury who've squandered their advantages away. But can you show me any studies that prove that coming from a prosperous background is not highly correlated with a comfortable later life?
I just think you are instinctively inclined to distrust anything that challenges the Objectivist Libertarian fantasy thet we are all complete masters of our fates and that those who are either fortunate or destitute clearly deserve their lot in life.
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Spew this.
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- Poverty and children's brains do not mix
- It is not so much poverty as lack of mental stimulation. (n/t)
- Maybe they should get a job.
- "Guns a blazin" ;) (n/t)
- They kind of club you over the head at the end.
- Kids with nothing to do
- I don't think that's true.
- Pot-induced short term memory loss? They'll outgrow it.
- How many great men and women throughout history grew up in poverty?