I’m saying that if you happen to grow up in a more affluent environment and/or with parents that have the right connections of course you will have better outcomes. But too many people who have had those advantages think they are “self made”.
If you start out on home base and end on second you did well. If you start out on second and finish a home run you did well.
Let's please not have this attitude that the only people who can take credit for any kind of accomplishment are those born in awful circumstances. It's just not true. Everyone has the opportunity to achieve something relative to their circumstances, and many do, and deserve credit for it, at all levels.
That's near the opposite of what I said. Please don't lazily pattern match me to some strawman argument and attack on that basis.
I'm happy to continue if you want to respond to what I actually wrote.
>too many people who have had those advantages think they are “self made”.
Implying that none of them are actually self-made. Which would mean that people born into decent circumstances cannot be self-made. In other words, they cannot take credit for any kind of accomplishment.
It's a reiteration of a common position; my interpretation is not extreme.
Perhaps I misinterpreted something, in which case I'm happy to be corrected. In any case, I certainly didn't explicitly reverse the meaning like was done to me.