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"The horse was the best worker in the kolkhoz, but it never became the kolkhoz's chairman".

All farm animals are equal. Some are just more equal than others.

A supermajority of the wealthiest people on the planet came from middle or upper middle class backgrounds.

So what? Still one in a million horses go on to be the coachman or so. Its not a guarantee you are able to climb like you are implying.

This is a quantifiably studied subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index

Half of us think that you are implying that hard work will get you into that wealthy group, the other half thinks you mean that those who don't come from a privileged background will never make it to the top?

So which is it?