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This is such a joke. I hear about crap like this all the time from my gf who is studying at Hunter College in NYC to become a teacher. The ease with which some people can marginalize the ambitions of others amazes me.

Here is a quote from a poster in one of her class rooms: "behind every great fortune is a crime".

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I don't understand what you are saying. Who is marginalizing the ambitions of others? Why is it easy? I take it you think that the study is invalid because you called it "crap" and a "joke". I'm honestly not sure - why is it a joke or crap?

Did the poster in the classroom provide any of the many examples of fortunes that began with crime? To say that "every" great fortune began with a crime is false, but certainly many did.

Yes, that sentiment goes right with a zero sum mentality.

(Though with all the laws today, it's hard not to break at least some of them.)

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