[Aliantha]

Congratulations on your achievements rkz...but I think your argument is bullshit when applied to society at large. Plenty of people have hard childhoods and achieve great things in their field. My husband is one of them.

We're not just talking about going to school and getting the best out of it. It's about having the opportunity to put to use the knowledge you might gain yourself. Some people simply don't ever get that opportunity no matter how smart they are. No matter how hard they've worked.

I could give you plenty of examples, but one is the commercial fishing industry. An industry which is traditionally filled with people who're uneducated but work hard for the money they earn, and yet governments continually make life harder for them by imposing restrictions which are not usually in the best interest of the industry. How can someone, no matter how hard they work, seriously be expected to understand legal jargon to the extent where they can argue against it in order to improve their likely outcome?

These are the types of scenarios which are regularly to be found in the real world.