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You are implying that poor people are a result of poor parenting, this is beyond stupid.

Poor parenting is a result of poverty. It is massively difficult to parent well when you are in financially dire situations constantly, surrounded by other people who are also in dire financial situations, and sending you kids to massively underfunded public schools.

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No one implied any such thing and there is a difference between being poor due to lackluster parenting / childhood and not growing up to be Bill Gates.

Families that nurture the value of good education (as in knowledge not a piece of paper) and hard work would quite likely have more successful children this is especially true when you can afford to lead by example rather than just yell do your homework.

Emphatically agree. No child picks which family they are born into, let alone the circumstances, or the cycles they will have to break in any socio-economic bracket.

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