Re: Why Isn't Socialism Dead?
Greg Goss
>On Dec 12, 1:56 pm, Shawn Wilson <ikonoql...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 11, 11:04 am, trag <t...@io.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Most of your "success" stories, actually were launched from an upper
>> > middle class or upper class pad.
>>
>> And by 'most' you mean ONE?
>
>No, I mean most. If you dig into virtually any success story someone
>quotes as a reason why we can blame the poor for being poor, it turns
>out that said super successful person had exceptional resources
>available to him or her. My coworker has a brother (brother in law
>(?)) who got rich off of convenience store franchises. How'd he get
>his start? $100,000 loan from his father. Most folks don't have
>parents who can do that.
>
>Sure, there are a few people who do well from truly modest
>beginnings. Most rich people had an uncommonly comfortable launch
>pad.
>
>Gates isn't a rags-to-riches story. His is a just-short-of-riches to
>absurdly wealthy story.
How about Ingvar Kamprad? For a brief period in 2006 or so, he was
the world's richest person.
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Tomorrow is today already.
Greg Goss, 1989-01-27