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Re:What happens when a culture is driven by the need for mon... by bitbuilder on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @03:48PM (#10549158)
Doesn't your Paris Hilton example prove GPs point, rather than refute it? It's precisely due to her family's considerable wealth that she was able to make more than she'll inherit. Would Julia Louis-Dreyfus have been able to pursue an acting career so easily without family wealth? But I'm not sure it's even useful to consider celebrities when discussing wealth acquisition in our country. I'd consider them outliers, in the grand scheme of things.
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Re:What happens when a culture is driven by the need for mon... by marknutter on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @06:29PM (#10550168)
She is definitely an outlier. I would venture to guess that the success rate of trust fund babies in business is about on par with the success rate of inner city kids. They both lack the proper incentives to succeed, but in dramatically different ways.
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Re:What happens when a culture is driven by the need for mon... by jpapon on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @07:26PM (#10550442)
That's just ridiculous. Inner city kids don't lack the proper incentives to succeed (they're poor, after all), they lack the resources needed to succeed.
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Re:What happens when a culture is driven by the need for mon... by workitout on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @07:51PM (#10550553)
I grew up poor in the south. People don't need to be handed incentives to succeed. Some people don't mind being poor. Some people will be poor before long even if you give them a million dollars. If success is important to you, you work for it. Success is defined differently for all of us. Lifelong welfare is not helping someone, it is not incentivizing them. That has to some from within.
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Re:What happens when a culture is driven by the need for mon... by omonra on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @09:55PM (#10551017)
I think he meant to say that trust fund kids lack motivation while inner city kids lack the skills.
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Re:What happens when a culture is driven by the need for mon... by marknutter on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @10:04PM (#10551044)
Exactly. I don't know which is worse..
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Re:What happens when a culture is driven by the need for mon... by CPLX on Thursday November 12, 2015 @08:01AM (#10552813)
I do.
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Re:What happens when a culture is driven by the need for mon... by marknutter on Thursday November 12, 2015 @10:29AM (#10553691)
Being a trust fund baby.
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Re:What happens when a culture is driven by the need for mon... by oberstein on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @07:47PM (#10550538)
Is IQ a resource?
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