re: Spew this.
But can you show me any studies that prove that coming from a prosperous background is not highly correlated with a comfortable later life?
Irrelevant. Of course it's likely that the offspring of wealth are more likely to be wealthy.
We weren't talking comfort. We were talking intellect.
Paris Hilton is comfortable. Abraham Lincoln was intelligent.
I just think you are instinctively inclined to distrust anything that challenges the Objectivist Libertarian fantasy that we are all complete masters of our fates and that those who are either fortunate or destitute clearly deserve their lot in life.
You seem to be desperately anxious to prove the opposite. I know exactly why collectivists do this. I still don't know why you do.