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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (107264)	6/8/2001 4:41:32 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (2) of 436258

fortunate people often confuse skill with good fortune, imho. Just as frequently as unfortunate people confuse success with good fortune. In fact I would say this is the biggest obstacle people who are born poor have to get over, that somehow the world is rigged so they can't succeed and there doesn't exist a logical set of steps available for them to succeed. It may in fact be stacked against them, but hardship can be a great motivating force. Persistence wins out over brains repeatedly and it surely wins out over being simply born to a middle class family. When you are talking about Bill Gates type success, you can't remove the idea that luck had an enormous hand, but the guy might be one of the most persistent people on the planet. Some of the hardest working individuals I know were born wealthy and some of the most successful I know were born poor. Seeing this was a great eye opener for me. It was then I realized that there was just as much prejudice against wealthy people in this country as there is against poor people.

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