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The Ability to Succeed or Fail: This is a meaningless bumper sticker. Of the 146 top colleges and universities in the US, 3% of freshmen come from poor backgrounds. Over 70% come from affluent backgrounds. The remaining 27% come from the middle class. This proves Carlin’s point of the rich succeeding at a greater pace than the poor and middle class, but it makes your “ability to succeed” concept sound oversimplified, at the very least. Furthermore, the majority of those college freshmen admitted to these top universities are the first-born child in their family—a case of pure luck leading to a work ethic that is more often found in the first child born in a family. Yes they worked hard, but they were instilled with a strong work ethic because of their birth order.
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