“The chance of a person who was born to a family in the bottom 10 percent of the income distribution rising to the top 10 percent as an adult is about the same as the chance that a dad who is 5 feet 6 inches tall having a son who grows up to be over 6 feet 1 inch tall,” Krueger observed in a speech. “It happens, but not often.”
When I had read that the first thing that came to mind was is true about the chance of a father having a soon who is taller then him. "which often barely happens." Is something you don't really think about until is said, to me this sentence means that not everyone has the privilege to be brought up in a family that is wealthy and taken care of.
I hear from people who say something like: I grew up poor, but I worked hard and I made it. If other people tried, they could, too.
Something I feel about this sentence is that not everyone has the opportunity to accomplish their goals plus more. they way I look at it is that is true, you can accomplish so much more and work as hard to accomplish your dreams and be somebody but not everyone has that mind set, and if they do, they began to feel like they cant complete that goal because either one, someone is bringing them down and see other wise and two, they begin to have such a high standard of themselves and they begin to doubt themselves because they don't see the deadline being met.
So let’s just drop the social Darwinism. Success is not a sign of virtue. It’s mostly a sign that your grandparents did well.
Something that I can't help but to agree is seeing certain generation being brought up and parents not showing them how hard life can be. while I watch movies and see how the rich family get brought up by parents and grandparents v.s. the family that works a 9-5 just to survive in a world, I get to compare the "struggle" of someone's life just by watching and seeing how life can be so cruel.
Life has so much opportunities but is up to us as our own person to accomplish that one thing, is time to began to take part of something to make a change and not just depend and rely while we don't get experience and not work hard for what we want.
I agree, people have to want to do something. No one can make someone do something.
ReplyDeleteReally good train of thought going from the quotes to your own personal analysis of what they mean. Your understanding of the text really showed!
ReplyDeleteHi Daisy! I agree with what you had to say here. People don't realize that not everyone has the same opportunities at success than themselves, and so they look down upon those people without considering what they had to go through as individuals. Thanks for sharing!
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