^^^PERFECT example^^^ of the "I'm a victim, it's not my fault" card.cobraboy informs us
Time. Each human on the planet has the same 24 hour day to work with.
Associations. Each of us decides who we associate with. This includes family.
each of us decides who we associate with. really! and at precisely what stage of life do we acquire the capability to do just that? does some 8 year old kid from the barrio get to associate with the Brugal family? if he does get to do so, later on in life, how does it erase the negatives that he digests in his early formative stages of life, when he is surrounded by a social ecosystem that manifests the worst self destructive traits known to mankind? what does he do, at eight years old, when the role model for his barrio is the drug dealer with the Lexus? does he make the conscious decision to pack his meagre belongings, leave home, and seek more positive associations? besides, this notion of being able to choose one?s friends is very limited in application, and does not lead to the egalitarian outcomes that cobraboy seems to imagine. there are people , in all countries of the world, who have a leg up on others, simply because of who they, or their family, is. George Bush, the younger, has a better chance of getting into Yale than i do, even if my SAT is higher. that chance is called GHW Bush. so, spare us the simplistics of some notion of potential egalitarianism, sabotaged by ?genetics?, among other things. the Bell Curve might be attractive to you, as an explanatory dynamic for social inequality, but is highly insufficient to tell us why a guy with a 95 IQ gets into Harvard over a guy with 160.
One does not have to associate with a Brugal family to associate with people who are determined to be an achiever.
I am sorry for your self-hate and underachievement, "the gorgon." It truly saddens me.
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