Poor kids who do things right don't do better than rich kids who do things wrong
It&#x27;s not what you know, it&#x27;s who you know.<p>If you&#x27;re a poor kid that manages to mingle with the rich and famous, I&#x27;d imagine you&#x27;d have some pretty good opportunities come your way too regardless of education.<p>That&#x27;s the real factor here. If you&#x27;re connected, you can sell your shitty web hosting to all your dad&#x27;s friends, and you can have doors open for you with minimal effort.<p>Regardless, there are rags to riches stories - sure, if you&#x27;re poor you will probably have to play life in hard mode, but it&#x27;s pretty cool to say &quot;I started on $4.75ph, and now I make $100ph&quot;. There will still be struggles however - it&#x27;s hard to buy a house when none of your family can act as guarantor, and you may have to help family members out every now and then.<p>In the end, we all die, and life is what you make of it. It&#x27;s also nice to remind ourselves every now and then of how much better off we are than 90% of the world still.