Present American culture is at risk of losing the values of self-made people. An unsympathetic lawmaker might respond to your story by saying your grandfather s

Present American culture is at risk of losing the values of self-made people. An unsympathetic lawmaker might respond to your story by saying your grandfather should not have become a mechanic through that path, but by following the basic, mainstream path of going into debt for schooling, then going into debt to own a shop. The underlying perspective of certain people in power is to keep everyone indentured so they cannot disrupt the ruling class. This is a seachange since the founding of the country in which the intention was for as many people to be free as possible - slaves not withstanding!