We are here by a choice we did not make. That's kind of hard to live with
I will like to take you on another journey. Hold on to your seats...this might be a bumpy ride.
All life starts with a decision. That is a certainty. For some the decision is well thought out. For some, it is not so much. In a few horrible cases, it starts with only one person's consent - and it is not only on the male side of the equation. Regardless of how it starts, the end result, the life that comes out of that choice has to live with the consequences. Some of you may shake your heads and say "That's not true". I will simply point out the numerous stories of children left to die when the parents refuse to own up to their choice to convince you.
Every child born into this world has a 1% chance of having an easy life. That's based on rudimentary calculations. If you factor in the number of births to the so called 1 Percent as against the so called 99 Percent, that probability goes down. If your parents are wealthy, you are, by law and many will argue by right, the heir to their fortunes. That is fair. What is not fair is that the other side inherits their parents poverty. What makes this hard to live with, is the fact that the system that makes them poor is a man made one.
Every one born into this world deserves a chance at gaining success. Chance is the key word here. However you slice it, effort and talent can only take one so far. In the end the game of business is a game of chance. The only thing that sets the winners apart from the losers is an unrelenting drive to succeed in spite of the many failures they may face. That ability to go hungry for months just to ensure that the idea one is nurturing blossoms into a forest of plump fruits is the key to success. Even then, that drive is born of circumstances and genetics, two things we have no control over. The 'lazy' homeless guy on the street ended there not because he deserves it. Circumstance and genetics put him there. Is it not right that as intelligent human beings we create systems to help those unlucky many, who were born of no fault of their own, and thrown into a world where the illusion of meritocracy looms large?
I say it is an illusion of meritocracy because a true meritocracy would level the playing field. All of us would have the same I.Q. We'd have the same educational experiences. Our brains would equally absorb the knowledge gained from this experience. We would share similar physical traits, and no one would be discriminated. Alas, that cannot happen at present. Not until we figure out the secrets of the brain, that is.
Until then, it is only right that those who fall into the 99%, my humble self and probably you the reader included, be given a handicap to make it. That may come in the form of mandatory quotas (not my favorite method) or better yet in free access to knowledge and a universal system of accreditation, as well as equal access to capital and labor laws that serve their true purpose: to ensure the well being of all citizens, not just the 1 Percent.
I did not choose to be born. It is only fair that I'm not made to suffer for it.
All life starts with a decision. That is a certainty. For some the decision is well thought out. For some, it is not so much. In a few horrible cases, it starts with only one person's consent - and it is not only on the male side of the equation. Regardless of how it starts, the end result, the life that comes out of that choice has to live with the consequences. Some of you may shake your heads and say "That's not true". I will simply point out the numerous stories of children left to die when the parents refuse to own up to their choice to convince you.
Every child born into this world has a 1% chance of having an easy life. That's based on rudimentary calculations. If you factor in the number of births to the so called 1 Percent as against the so called 99 Percent, that probability goes down. If your parents are wealthy, you are, by law and many will argue by right, the heir to their fortunes. That is fair. What is not fair is that the other side inherits their parents poverty. What makes this hard to live with, is the fact that the system that makes them poor is a man made one.
Every one born into this world deserves a chance at gaining success. Chance is the key word here. However you slice it, effort and talent can only take one so far. In the end the game of business is a game of chance. The only thing that sets the winners apart from the losers is an unrelenting drive to succeed in spite of the many failures they may face. That ability to go hungry for months just to ensure that the idea one is nurturing blossoms into a forest of plump fruits is the key to success. Even then, that drive is born of circumstances and genetics, two things we have no control over. The 'lazy' homeless guy on the street ended there not because he deserves it. Circumstance and genetics put him there. Is it not right that as intelligent human beings we create systems to help those unlucky many, who were born of no fault of their own, and thrown into a world where the illusion of meritocracy looms large?
I say it is an illusion of meritocracy because a true meritocracy would level the playing field. All of us would have the same I.Q. We'd have the same educational experiences. Our brains would equally absorb the knowledge gained from this experience. We would share similar physical traits, and no one would be discriminated. Alas, that cannot happen at present. Not until we figure out the secrets of the brain, that is.
Until then, it is only right that those who fall into the 99%, my humble self and probably you the reader included, be given a handicap to make it. That may come in the form of mandatory quotas (not my favorite method) or better yet in free access to knowledge and a universal system of accreditation, as well as equal access to capital and labor laws that serve their true purpose: to ensure the well being of all citizens, not just the 1 Percent.
I did not choose to be born. It is only fair that I'm not made to suffer for it.
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