Those thoughts mirror mine in the role of culture in poverty and income/wealth disparity. Like you, I think it's pretty straightforward to conclude that your o

Those thoughts mirror mine in the role of culture in poverty and income/wealth disparity. Like you, I think it's pretty straightforward to conclude that your outcome in life is influenced by your culture and attitudes. And that the influence can be inter-generational. I just don't hear much talk of trying to improve economic equality via cultural and attitude changes. Probably because you'll be accused of "blaming the victim" as though you were stating this was the only or primary factor. It's easy to become dismissive of positions that make you uncomfortable by whittling away the subtleties until all you're left with is an enraging straw man whom attacking brings you back a degree of comfort. I also feel like consensus around diagnoses and remedies of social ailments suffer from snowballing effects. That is, a heard mentality. For instance, if rational assessments gave Cause A 60% probability of being the true cause, and Cause B a 40% probability, then over time, even with no additional insights, the population will not fall into this same proportion. Probably something like 90% will passionately believe Cause A to be the one true cause, with the other 10% equally convinced it's Cause B, especially if it is more comforting to them and their beliefs/self narrative. Apologies, this became a steam of thought.