[jt1]

You'll have to explain your authors position better. But let me just say that a person born to an ignorant parent or parents who don't value education and who grows up in a crime infested neighborhood and who goes to a bottomed out school has very little chance of breaking out of his/her predictament. Perhaps 10% of those people are extraordinary enough to elevate themselves to a better life. Blaming the other 90% for just being average is fairly ignorant. Do you critisize the 90% of middle class offspring who don't retire as millionaires?