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Secure situations make successful people. Children raised in well-off households with no financial worries do better in school and later in their careers, on av
by suction 5y ago
Secure situations make successful people. Children raised in well-off households with no financial worries do better in school and later in their careers, on average.
Sure, you get the rich kid wasting their life on parties or drugs, or the poor kid beating the odds by hard work and determination, but those are outliers. That's why there are so many of these characters in literature, movies, and TV - they're not the norm.
- mensetmanusman 5y agoMy personality is like the happy math guy above; I grew up in poverty, but I had a ton of loving security from both parents centered around love and commitment. We used to have to collect change at McDonald’s for lunch. Eventually I graduated from MIT. I understand it is not the norm… :)
- ajuc 5y agoThe mechanism is: - a rich kid wastes 3 years on drugs and partying, gets caught once or twice, gets bailed by parents, moves on to do something productive - a poor kid wastes 1 year on drugs and partying, gets caught once, it snowballs from there, recovery is very hard if at all possible