> Who cares about statistics.. if it's possible, just harder, for you to be a wealthy entrepreneur, still you should do it! That may be fine as an approach fo

> Who cares about statistics.. if it's possible, just harder, for you to be a wealthy entrepreneur, still you should do it! That may be fine as an approach for the individual. But articles such as this are also meant to inform public policy and opinion. Social mobility in the US is at an all-time low, and that won't change just by preaching the prosperity gospel. Even if you are not a victim of this imbalance yourself, you have an interest in fixing it: for every Google, Facebook, and Microsoft started by rich kids, there are four similarly-successful startups that never get founded because their potential founders weren't in the top 20%. And eventually, people will notice that, no, it's not (just) their fault that they can't get ahead in life. At that point, social cohesion will vanish: rules will only be respected where they are enforced by violence, the military will no longer find poor people willing to die for the country, employees will casually sabotage the startups they work at etc.