next-Jin
Supreme [H]ardness
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Wrong, there are plenty of people poor because they made bad decisions, but most people are poor because THEY WERE BORN POOR and they don't have the opportunities to get out of it. In the USA, the economic class you were born into determines where you'll end up more than any other factor. If you want more social mobility so that you birth doesn't determine your fate so much, you have to go to places like Northern Europe.
"Getting into the middle class not being that hard" just SCREAMS ignorance, like you're lived in a bubble existence most of your life. It's like you have no idea what kind of advantages you've had in order to make a statement like that.
http://richhabits.net/20-learned-habits-that-will-make-your-child-rich-or-poor/