Why dont you give away your money to poor people?

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It's like there are 4 groups, poor undriven, poor driven, rich undriven, and rich driven. Everybody in America has sufficient opportunity to 'make it' except for those who belong to the poor undriven group. I mean, I geuss it sucks but compared to any other economic system the world has ever seen...it stacks up pretty well.

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Well said, although I'd argue that there are plenty of poor and driven people who, through no fault of their own, cannot escape the cycle of poverty they were born into. If you think we all have the same exact level of opportunity in America, you are not seeing this country for how it really is. We don't all start from the same place. Rich kids in fancy suburbs go to the best schools financed by their rich parents' property taxes. Poor kids go to public schools with no computers, crumbling walls, and that look more like prisons.

Read the newspapers. Both the NY Times and the Wall St. Journal recently did articles about the death of upward mobility in America. The divide between rich and poor has never been greater, and the divide widens every day.