re: Nice opinion piece on income inequality from CNN

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Pulling yourself up takes hard work, but it's not the only factor.

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This is absolutely true, I think we need education needs reform first and foremost, but they do the best they can as a government entity I suppose. Really we need to start celebrating our best and brightest culturally, when our society doesn't celebrate academic achievement at the highest level in the same manner they do athletic and artistic achievement, how can we expect children to not focus on those areas instead of academics. That principle applies to any lifestyle which is more supported culturally than scholarly achievement. I actually have a few ideas on how this may be possible, just need complete control of the previously mentioned Bill&Melinda Gates foundation resources.

Agree with the incentive system, but the end goal shouldn't be to limit the top 1% but to make the advantages (primarily academic access) more universally available.