What Makes Being Poor in The United States Suck?

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AlfredoTurkey said:

sc94597 said:

I think the bolded is insulting. People who come from poor families in the U.S who later are successful aren't solely successful because of their genetics. It is also how they learned to succeed from their environment. 

 

Bullshit. Going from rags to riches is like winning the lotto... of DNA. The reason poor people stay poor has nothing to do with environment. They don't do drugs because they learned to do them. They don't drink all day, because they learned to drink all day. They do it because their parents were addicts, and their parents etc. People are poor because they flat out don't have what it takes mentally to go out there and succeed. You can give these people all the tools in the world, and almost all of them will just fuck it up and end up RIGHT back where they started.

 

Steve Job's and people of his ilk are born, not made. In the US, the problem is that we actually have this delusion that "all men are created equal". They're not. And the sooner we accept this, the sooner we can get to the business of taking care of those who can't take care of themselves and the sooner we can stop being an international disgrace. 

This is possibly one of the most presumptuous statement I've ever read.