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These articles often target extreme examples, and don't address actual issues. All I'd want to see is a system where everyone at least gets a shot, right now.

These articles often target extreme examples, and don't address actual issues. All I'd want to see is a system where everyone at least gets a shot, right now. If both of your parents are abusive drug addicts and they don't want you to go to college since they're afraid that's going to make you uppity, those drug addicts have an insane ability to stop you from doing anything. It's beyond stupid. You effectively need your parents permission to go to college in this country, via the way our financial aid system works. Why not just give everyone financial aid, this would also help out struggling middle-class families which on paper don't currently qualify. I'm not too worried that Zuckerberg are whoever got $100,000 to start his business, I'm more worried about the poor teenager who doesn't talk to his parents, and has no real option to attend college until he's 24. Of course, occasionally you teach yourself how to program and by the time you get around to finish in college, you don't qualify for financial aid anyway since you're already making six figures, but I like to think of myself as the exception, not the rule.

thedudeabides5 5y ago
Then push for a 100% inheritance tax. It's the only way
- fuzzfactor 5y ago
  Usually it's the grandpa who was the financial wizard, or at the other end of the spectrum an outright thief. And it can often extend back many more generations than that before you hit the ancestor who accumulated the original wealth. >It's the only way Inheritance tax is not the answer. If lacking generational wealth is such a big disadvantage, that would make everyone too poor to accomplish major projects. Not incentivize any building of lasting value. Would be more progressive to quit taxing wages altogether, and allow wealth to build (much) faster among working people to the extent they can much more universally afford to invest that part of their wages more wisely in the same well-performing financial instruments that have been found in the trust funds of the most privileged heirs & heiresses. Rather than destoying wealth with over-taxation, why not allow wealth to blossom by taking the burden off of the workers who have had to do without for generations, and allowing them to participate instead of cutting everyone out.
- horns4lyfe 5y ago
  Sure, then the path to success is to be born into a family of government officials. Great.

thedudeabides5 5y ago

Then push for a 100% inheritance tax. It's the only way

fuzzfactor 5y ago
Usually it's the grandpa who was the financial wizard, or at the other end of the spectrum an outright thief. And it can often extend back many more generations than that before you hit the ancestor who accumulated the original wealth. >It's the only way Inheritance tax is not the answer. If lacking generational wealth is such a big disadvantage, that would make everyone too poor to accomplish major projects. Not incentivize any building of lasting value. Would be more progressive to quit taxing wages altogether, and allow wealth to build (much) faster among working people to the extent they can much more universally afford to invest that part of their wages more wisely in the same well-performing financial instruments that have been found in the trust funds of the most privileged heirs & heiresses. Rather than destoying wealth with over-taxation, why not allow wealth to blossom by taking the burden off of the workers who have had to do without for generations, and allowing them to participate instead of cutting everyone out.
horns4lyfe 5y ago
Sure, then the path to success is to be born into a family of government officials. Great.