Not2BSubjugated
Callous Individualist
You might not recognize the opportunities you have because they just came naturally to you. Were you born poor? Were you parents and grandparents poor? If you weren't, then you had opportunities that you were born into.
For a large majority of poor people, no amount of hard work will ever lift them above their stations, because whether you admit it or not, America is not a country of equal opportunities.
While I know I've worked hard my entire life, since I turned 18, I'm not naive enough to thing that it was just my hard work that got me here, it wasn't. A lot was luck and opportunity.
I don't think anybody's trying to say that hard work is the only factor in success. That would be seriously foolish.
I still don't understand why you insist on marginalizing it, though. While not the only factor, it is -a- factor, yes?
Successful habits -do- create a better outcome than not, yes?
Why yes they (successful habits) do create a better outcome.
Now, what part does opportunity play? Your turn.
I've already conceded several times in this very thread that opportunity plays a role.
The size of the role depends on what you're including in the scope of opportunity.
Are we including physical and intellectual capacity? Probability of being exposed to philosophies and lifestyles conducive to success? Probability of being psychologically instilled by your upbringing and the random events of your formative years to have the desire to research these things? I don't think there's many people in this country without library or internet access, so does that count as opportunity to learn this shit? Or do we only count it as opportunity if they were born into cultures that breed the desire to learn and excel intellectually? If so, when can we start having a discussion about which factions of our culture are defective, in this regard?
If you only mean economic advantages throughout schooling age and financial inheritance, then opportunity ain't nearly as all-encompassing as you make it out to be, that's for God damn sure.
At any rate, the fact that economic advantages also affect one's outcomes is retarded obvious. I'm still not understanding why I have to acknowledge this to make the assertion that motivated habits positively affect outcomes.
Why do you demand that I go out of my way to make sure that everyone understands that I'm not implying that all poor people are lazy? Why is it that you automatically snap to that assumption and turn defensive?
How overly sensitive is our culture in general?
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