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VGPolyglot said:
potato_hamster said:

... yes. Many times people work harder to ensure that their children are better off. Now those children should be punished for their parents hard work over some utopian sense of "fairness"? Life isn't fair. Some people will always be born with advantages over others, whether it's Michael Phelps (physicial advantages), Donald Trump (wealth advantages), or Neil DeGrasse Tyson (intellectual advantages(. That will never change.

You talk as if poor people don't work hard.

As the son of a man who grew up poor and malnourished, and used to regularly go 24 hours without eating so he could afford to attend university, all of which was funded by an inadequate student loan program that forced him to work part-time while taking one of the most intellectually demanding and time consuming degrees in the country, I find that insulting. My father worked as hard as he did to get ahead in life to ensure that his children would never ever have to endure what he did.

I know about how hard poor people work, I assure you.