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[quote=TheManWithAUsername][quote=Anonymous]To Usernameman:  Either I have no idea what you're saying or I disagree.  At the very least, yeah, we'll need a cite for the "if people don't fall into money directly many more fall into its benefits" (paraphrasing).[/quote]
Are you really going to question "many?" I couldn't have been much vaguer. Do you seriously doubt that there are significant disparities among people in those areas of upbringing?

If instead you doubt that there's an impact, as I said, why try to give your kids any benefits? Move to Anacostia and leave the kids alone all day. (I guess that's one way we could do a study.)

[quote=Anonymous]Or maybe I'm just blinded by my own situation:  poor girl meets poor boy, both work tails off, take out education debt, work tails off, pay off education debt, encounter zero additional debt (except reasonable mortgage), work tails off, make sacrifices, send kids to public school and now, voila, we're "rich." Hooray.[/quote]
There's no question that there are many true rags-to-riches stories; it's a big country, after all.

There are many more stories like what many of us are realistically hoping for for our kids: stable home, attention from loving people, safe neighborhood, good schools (private or public in good neighborhood), good nutrition, subtle educational benefits like good grammar and social skills. I didn't have all of those things, but I had most of them, so I consider myself to have been fairly privileged, though I didn't inherit anything, I paid for all of my schooling, and I never benefited from any family connection.

There's another issue here, BTW. Let's say I'm just a lot smarter than average. (Psst! - I think I am). There are multiple points at which it's pretty inarguable that my successes resulted from intelligence, NOT work ethic - I'm pretty lazy. Right there, there's a significant difference in opportunity from birth. For all of these reasons, it would be ridiculous for me to look at a working class person and ascribe the differences in our situations entirely to work ethic and choice.

[quote=Anonymous]Now increase our taxes (because we lack empathy?).[/quote]
That's a different question. And no, my opinions about taxes have nothing to do with my evaluation of one's empathy.

OP and many others boo-hooed about how s/he is a victim of a nationwide class war. I call BS on that. Now if you consider ANY taxation to be class warfare, we apparently just define that term differently.

BTW, do you think there's a nationwide class war against you? I bet not.[/quote]

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