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The bottom line is that is much harder to be successful then not. To make change in yourself is HARD. It is much easier to hope for, to advocate, to force change in others then in yourself.
Life is not really fair. You either adapt or you do not.
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Look at nearly all the successful people business people in America and most didn’t either go to college or were not geeks. Gates, Dell, etc. And for every Grove with PhD, I can name 10000 successful business owners.
If you look at the Pres Bush, Kerry, Biden, Powell, Mozillo, Palin, etc, these people are not the A students, they are mediocre students, many somehow getting Ivy League degrees. (Obama one of the few with decent grades, but who has NO street smarts or common sense, which cost him the election. How did that honors degree work out for him, whipped by the plumber!!)
The resentment of the wealthy may come from bailouts and the lack of any “personal responsibility”. “Those fat cats keep all the profits, but me Bob the taxpayer has to pay when he screws up”. We cant have any rules because Angelo and friends wont risk anything unless he knows that PIGGS will bail him if the market forces creates imbalances that cause rapid deceleration of job growth in their empire.
FLU touched upon Asians working really hard and not advancing as fast/far. If you want to get stuck in this predicament, just study hard, become a geek and end up a pathetic W2 casualty that will get taxed higher and higher by the man to pay for unlimited deficits. Our culture (and tax code) has deemed education passe. Like SDR said so eloquently, deal with it.
