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4. We no longer reward talent, ability and skill in America.

Reply to Bill USA (Original post)

Tue Nov 20, 2012, 07:22 AM

Nov 2012

We reward luck.

You have to be lucky to be born to parents who give you millions of dollars to go to college on. You have to be lucky to be able to take your idea and shape it into a viable product that no one else is selling. You have to be lucky to get into just the right business that is prospering at the moment. You have to be lucky to be at the right place at the right time.

No amount of hard work and ability can replace dumb luck in the USA.