Actually, in the US at least, most people will live and die in the same social and financial status in which they were born.  Why?  Mostly because of the differences in education.  Education level is close to being a hard-cap on how far up most people can climb and how much money they can make.  A person who begins their education in a poor, apathic school system is at an automatic disadvantage from the very beginning.  In effect, for the majority, the amount their parents can spend on education will determine that person's own professional success.

In some cases, education is also used as a sorting tool, in which it takes the place of "classism."  Want to keep the riff-raff out?  Throw up a "Bachelor's Degree Only" roadblock.  I've seen quite a few of those, with no major listed.

Hard work is not synonymous with success.  The wealth your family holds when your a child is a much bigger factor.

 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/us/harder-for-americans-to-rise-from-lower-rungs.html?pagewanted=all

Anyone who actually tries can and if you choose not to then you should be happy with your choices. Your life is what you make it.

Ever consider that the reason a lot of poorer people smoke and drink is to try and deal with the fact that they're living from hand to mouth each month, praying that nobody gets sick and ends up having to pay a medical bill that they won't be able to afford or hoping that nothing will break down that they have no money to replace? Deal with that sort of stress day in and day out, unable to move out of your social situation because you can't afford the educational training to get you a piece of paper that tells you you're officially more intelligent than when you went in, then you can probably start judging. I agree in that smoking and drinking shouldn't be viable to those who can't afford to eat, but stress does things to you.

And as to the original post...

Just another rich bag of tainted fluids that thinks she knows anything about anyone or anything other than the world that ends at the tip of her nose. Take away her inherited wealth and she might be the person who sits behind the counter at a gas station, hating their life and snapping at people. Nobody wealthy ever thinks like that, though. I suppose a little leeway should be given, as this woman has been obviously been born into wealth and knows nothing else. Chances are she'll never know anything else, because rich people usually have methods of keeping themselves rich even in bad times. She doesn't have a damn clue, doesn't want a damn clue and the blinders are just fine with her.

If you feel like you have no future, you're going to indulge for today. It's quicker to get satisfaction from a bottle of jack daniels than it is from a prosperous small business (and with far more guarantees on the jack daniels route, whereas so much of success is luck anyway)

Things like this make me want to commit violent acts, honestly. Rich folk who inherited mineral wealth talking down to me while sitting around on their high horses and building the system that is making sure that i have no future. If things continue as they are, she'll face the mob one day, and all the condescencion in the world won't save her.

Also this is not a new phenomenon. The distribution of wealth has always been of this proportion. 2% people people controlling 98% of the wealth and rest of the 98% fighting and competing for that 2%. Before the kings and queens had the money and you could not question them as you ended up dead. Now you can question them somewhat but can't do much about it.

Just make enough to live comfortable and retire in peace. Wealthy people don't have monopoly over happiness. They have everything but seem miserable and anxious all the time.

This is coming from a woman who inherited her wealth. LOL

Maybe she is not using the right words but There is some truth in what she is saying. In my country poor families have and average of 4 to 5 childs and is really strange to find a rich family with more than 2 childs. Them They ask the government for help when They did not took the time to plan their future first and have the kids later.

In the world that we live in there are plenty of talented people. The way the money is spread out amongst the top its not always the honest people who make it to the top. Remember that. There are plenty of lawyers, doctors, scientists and other who are expected to get high pay but are out of the job just as any other person. In this generation the term "hustle" has to be used because its now about who you know rather than how good you really are.

Bingo. I mean, some people are just lazy, bad people (but i find that those people tend to be evenly distributed across all walks of life regardless of race/religion/economic status, like this woman who represents in her strata the same type of lazy good-for-nothing as the guy on welfare who keeps trying to scam Italian Ice off me in my job), but a lot of people are well-meaning, but have been beaten down into nihilism. Tasting the bitterness of the employment system since i've graduated (and bear in mind i'm only 3.5 months out of college, and already bitter), i can sympathize. "If you work hard, you'll get somewhere" is an aggregate, long-run thing, and it's easy at any point in that grueling journey to just give up and indulge in the quicker pleasures that surround us.

The only people who are unset about this are the ones who are unwilling to do the uncomfortable things necessary to create a richer life for themselves.

I say 'richer' and not 'better' life because to many, enjoying drinking, socializing and gaming (or smoking or whatever your leisure) is a better life than have mega-money without those things.

Of course, if you're rich, you can look like that and still have a model for a boy/girlfriend.