01-30-2018, 01:22 PM
(01-30-2018, 01:16 PM)Au165 Wrote: I think most believe anyone can succeed, not that everyone can succeed.
I don't see the two as exclusive. If anyone can succeed, then that means that you just need to do it. But if everyone does it, then some won't succeed, even if motivated and doing what should work.
Capitalism is a system in which there will be winners and losers, but our social safety net acts as if that is not the case.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
