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hifiguy

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14. The zip code in which you are raised will probably determine how successful

Reply to CTyankee (Reply #10)

Mon Jan 25, 2016, 08:19 PM

Jan 2016

you are in the "profesional" world, regardless of where you went to school. This is a more class-bound society than any in the developed world except perhaps the UK.

"Not our kind, dear, even if s/he went to Harvard...."

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Explain This To Me Like I'm A Complete Idiot, Part 16: "Exceptional", just like everyone else? [View all] HughBeaumont Jan 2016 OP

It is a rigged game. It favors the the members of the in-club. You are not in the club Vincardog Jan 2016 #1

yup lapfog_1 Jan 2016 #5

And not only that, "they" don't want you in the club...they will black ball you... CTyankee Jan 2016 #10

The zip code in which you are raised will probably determine how successful hifiguy Jan 2016 #14

It's simple. Conservatives don't believe in equality.* Hortensis Jan 2016 #2

George W. Bush was an example of a man of quite modest intelligence guillaumeb Jan 2016 #3

"Class Warfare" HughBeaumont Jan 2016 #7

I disagree with the "..hard work and fortitude.." part of GWB. elias49 Jan 2016 #11

Agreed. There should be a special font one could use to convey irony. guillaumeb Jan 2016 #16

Sounds like Thomas Friedman nxylas Jan 2016 #4

And trust you me . . . HughBeaumont Jan 2016 #6

Friedman would have to rise a LONG way hifiguy Jan 2016 #13

Translation: "I got mine, fuck you." Warpy Jan 2016 #8

their real "solution" is to die off 0rganism Jan 2016 #9

if you can't dazzle them with genius hifiguy Jan 2016 #12

they always say they're for "equaity of opportunity" not "equality of outcome" MisterP Jan 2016 #15

If you don't get rich, it's your own damn fault. alarimer Jan 2016 #17

Despite the growing amount of assertiveness in the US media that millionaires ARE "self made". HughBeaumont Jan 2016 #18