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Do you believe that everyone in the United States, has en equal opportunity to become apart of the super rich population?

Does everyone, with hard work and a goal of reaching billionaire status , have the resources available? Whether it entails going to a community college or a scholarship to an Ivy League school.

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  • 7 years ago

    No, it's a goal that you'll never reach.

  • 7 years ago

    Chose your parents carefully. If you're parents are rich and well-connected, you, too, can become President of the US, even though you cannot read or write or speak and fall of the couch when you try to eat a pretzel. George W. Bush is your role model.

  • 7 years ago

    of course not. it is mostly a question of who you know and what you started with. there isn't a lot of migration between economic classes despite our schools telling us what a wonderful system we live in where that can happen easily (it doesn't and it isn't done easily even when it happens).

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Yes, becuese Mitt Romney says that is the case, and I also believe that 47% of the American population are parasitic spongers.

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  • 7 years ago

    IRS data shows that MOST people will visit at least three income quintiles during their lives. Many will reach four. So I can say statistically that income mobility is still quite strong in the US.

    However to answer you specifically, yes, everyone has an equal opportunity in the same sense that runners in a race all have equal opportunity.

    However, some runners are faster than others. That doesn't make the race unfair or a bad race. In the same way, some people are better organizers, better inventors, have better education, and/or have better access to capital.

    In particular, education is the great difference maker right now. We are becoming a nation where getting off to a bad start education-wise is a CRIPPLING disadvantage. The advantage conveyed by ivy League vs State College is not as large as you think. But the difference between the person who gets a high school diploma in the suburbs vs the one who drops out at 12 years old in the inner city schools...that difference is HUGE.

    The greatest civil rights crisis of the 21st century in America is the way our public schools are run as jobs programs for political lobbyist groups. It is functionally impossible to fire a bad teacher in these schools no matter how bad they are. Teachers have literally been FILMED doing ABSOLUTELY NO TEACHING WHATSOEVER, and when the scandal broke, they were fired. Two weeks later, the union forced them to be re-hired with back pay.

    We need school choice. It is the only way to enforce the kind of accountability on schools that can result in improvement. The data clearly shows major improvement in students in charter and voucher programs compared to public school programs. The only reason the politicians refuse to allow it is because Teacher Unions are one of the heaviest donors to the Democrats that there are.

  • 7 years ago

    No. In fact a European who is born poor, is 20 times more likely to become wealthy than an American born poor is. This is because their free education, free healthcare, and more robust welfare system puts the poor on a more equal footing with the rich. But even though money can't officially buy you a seat in the best university college if your scores on the exam aren't tip top, it can buy you tutors to help you get better scores, and of course if you are born the son of a peer, there are still under the table deals made. So the poor will never have truly equal opportunity until money is abolished.

  • 7 years ago

    Sure but that requires you posses superior social skills and an almost psychotic-level of work dedication. Unfortunately, 99% of people do not have these qualities.

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