Actually your chances are increased if you come from the middle class. I might get downvoted for writing this, but the poor have a harder time because of their

Actually your chances are increased if you come from the middle class. I might get downvoted for writing this, but the poor have a harder time because of their lack of access to education and the rich have it 'harder' in the sense that they don't have certain motivations to work harder. These are tendencies of course, not the general case. I remember reading the Forbes 30 under 30s stats once and seeing that >60% came from a middle-class family. I'm just 22 years old but from what I've seen for the moment from people around my life, this is what happens: Guys with really rich parents end up at an important role at their dad's company; and once their dad retires they become CEO. On the other side, middle-class guys are the ones starting up startups and companies in general; which ends up making the number of middle-class CEOs superior to the number of high-class CEOs.