The gap between the rich and poor continues to grow daily. Some try to purport that the widening gap represents a natural consequence of those who are better educated and motivated naturally rising above the rest, which keeps alive the delusion that someone starting out poor can naturally rise to the level their intelligence and aptitude dictates Not so.
For a person who is born into the bottom 60% of income, there is a less than 2% chance that he or she will end up in the top 5%. Children born to parents in the bottom 20% hold a 40% chance of staying there for the rest of their lives. For these numbers to represent a natural occurrence it would have to be accepted as fact that rich intelligent people have rich intelligent children, while poor ignorant people have poor ignorant children.
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