They think that you can just get out of it if you're smart and hard working. This is completely false. Intelligence is almost worthless nowadays. Stupidity is m

They think that you can just get out of it if you're smart and hard working. This is completely false. Intelligence is almost worthless nowadays. Stupidity is more valuable. Just look at Dogecoin millionaires. The only necessary ingredient to escape poverty these days is luck. I'm certain that if Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos started their careers 10 years ago, today they would be moderately poor engineers/developers struggling to pay their rents. When you start out as as poor or middle-class, the number of bad things which can happen to you on any given day is unfathomable. There are glass ceilings everywhere and monopolistic forces to suppress your voice and to spread misinformation which harms you in many different ways; all of it done to maintain the status quo. On the other hand, good luck compounds.