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Originally Posted by somerfrost
Well, if you use wealth as the measure you are skewing the results from my point of view but lets discuss that...an "idiot sevant" can have an IQ of 60 and end up wealthy. Mine is over 150 and I'm poor as a church mouse so there are always exceptions. My argument is that we judge a person's value by their possessions and apply labels based on same. If we viewed everyone as equal, then there would be no reason to rank them and "poor" would be a meaningless term. I believe in free will but realize we are molded by our experiences (environment) so nobody is destined to "always be" anything. Again...this is my opinion, my view...and it is a minority view!
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Somer: You're about my age and our circumstances are close but I would heartily disagree that we were taught that from birth! My earliest memories are of my duty to my fellow man and treatment of such. I worked my butt off during H.S. for cash,and usually had a 2nd job to add income while I raised my family. I'm not envious of Gates,or Walton,Pickens,Buffet,Paul Allen or any of the many people that busted their butts to excel in their fields. The money to these Folks was always secondary,I believe, and I vigorously defend their right to keep much of what they've earned. For some reason you view them as malevolent or avaristic. The rich are not responsible for this societys' ills...and the burden to fix what's broken should be shared by all men and women of the "community" of our society. As our Constitution states, all men are created equal..but it's true that all don't have the same opportunity to succeed. That's where the framework of our society steps in and gets people educated and trained. The purpose of this is to enable people to take care of themselves and to follow whatever their dreams may be. Some dreams are harder to accomplish than others...and there are far too many people who blame others for their failings /lack of success. I could go on..but you get my drift, and the only idiot savant I know who made any money was the Rainman