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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would say most Americans get out of life what they put into it. The simple reality is that most Americans are decent middle class people living middle class lives, working their 40 hour week job and living in a modest suburban house. Their lifestyle reflects the efforts they put into life. When I look at my workplaces and those who achieve more senior status it really does make sense why and how. That is not to say things are completely fair. Life is not and has never been. There are factors like racism or disability or lack of education that have definitely hurt people. And, yes, there are poorer people who work 80 hour weeks and break their backs at physical labor for low wages and dumb rich kids living off trust funds who do nothing at all. But as a whole we are more meritocratic than not. People who complain about entrenched poverty in urban areas or rural towns ignore that for every impoverished person struggling at life there is another person who started out in the same position and moved away and is doing just fine. The real question is why do some people quickly figure out what they need to do to have a decent life and why others do not. It all comes down to the choices we make at the end of the day and quite often making bad choices can snowball into more bad choices and worsen your position over time, but that cannot be blamed on a failure of meritocracy. The woman in the article in New York made very clear decisions for what to do with her life. It's not a failure of meritocracy that she is struggling. People with the same aptitude, the same intelligence, the same capabilities, and who started out life in the same place, have done much better than she did through making different career and lifestyle decisions. [/quote] This[/quote]
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