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Given the state of the world today, the quote seems almost prescient when you realize that no horse has ever the option to become the coachman no matter how har
by acuozzo 3y ago
Given the state of the world today, the quote seems almost prescient when you realize that no horse has ever the option to become the coachman no matter how hard he tries.
- Joker_vD 3y ago"The horse was the best worker in the kolkhoz, but it never became the kolkhoz's chairman".
- xerox13ster 3y agoAll farm animals are equal. Some are just more equal than others.
- ozr 3y agoA supermajority of the wealthiest people on the planet came from middle or upper middle class backgrounds.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoSo what? Still one in a million horses go on to be the coachman or so. Its not a guarantee you are able to climb like you are implying.
- esafak 3y agoThis is a quantifiably studied subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index
- kwhitefoot 3y agoHalf of us think that you are implying that hard work will get you into that wealthy group, the other half thinks you mean that those who don't come from a privileged background will never make it to the top? So which is it?
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