(11-20-2018, 04:21 PM)HandsomeRob86 Wrote:

(11-20-2018, 09:26 AM)Last42min Wrote: Pew Research - Partisan Gaps Grow Wider

"Democrats are divided by education and race in their views of hard work and success. White Democrats and those with higher levels of education are less likely than nonwhite Democrats and those with less education to say that hard work leads to success."
That is probably the saddest quote in that whole article. The more 'education' these democrats get, the more they believe they are victims and can achieve nothing through hard work. What a terrible way to think.

Eh, it's kind of a loaded question though.
Do we mean "hard work" in terms of physically difficult and backbreaking, or do we mean "hard work" as in diligence in general?
Do we mean "success" as you've become a contributing member of society, or you are now in the elite 10% or 1% of America?

Because it's obviously not true that people who just do more and more physically difficult, backbreaking labor eventually get to an elite amount of income or wealth.  Maybe in a better world they would, but not in this one.
While it obviously is true that trying hard and being diligent will set nearly anyone who's not disabled up to be a contributing member of society.

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