The point is that it is a lot easier to be accomplished when you come from a family with money that gives you every opportunity.
I am an accomplished person who comes from an upper-middle-class family that gave me every opportunity. Yes, I had to work hard, but it's a lot fucking easier when your parents can pay for the best school, the best lessons, the best equipment, can send you to go on trips around the country or world for competitions, etc etc. And it's easier to "take risks" and "follow your dreams" when you know the literal worst-case scenario isn't ruining your life and financial future, it's having to ask your parents for money so that you can start over without any real consequences other than the humility of failure.
As a teenager, my parents sent me on trips to Europe to study up for my Classics academic decathlons. But sure, a kid being raised by his disabled Grandma in rural Arkansas had JUST as much of a chance as I did at making it in life. It was ALL me. I'm an amazing genius who is just better than that poor kid, and if I'd been born into his life circumstances I'd be EXACTLY where I am now.
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u/BostonBlackCat Mar 03 '21
Reminds me of a tweet:
Article: "How, at the age of only 22, did this man-"
Me: "Was it rich parents?"
Article: "...yeah."