Telling children 'hard work gets you to the top' is simply a lie
More straw-man crap trying to pitch the ridiculous idea that hard work doesn&#x27;t matter at all.  OK, sure, you can argue that you&#x27;re <i>more likely</i> to reach the <i>very highest echelons</i> of society if you are lucky enough to be born rich, etc.  But:<p>a. &quot;more likely&quot; doesn&#x27;t mean it isn&#x27;t possible to achieve if you <i>aren&#x27;t</i> &quot;born right&quot;<p>and perhaps more to the point:<p>b. &quot;success&quot; is measured on a continuum; it&#x27;s not a binary proposition.  And there&#x27;s a lot of room between &quot;Becoming a Supreme Court justice&quot; (just to pick an example) and winding up as a barista at Starbucks.   Like, plenty of lawyers who make a nice living for their families, or all the thousands of local district and superior court judges out there, or the hundreds of federal circuit judges who don&#x27;t <i>quite</i> make it to the <i>very</i> top.<p>This kind of article is boring and pointless because it&#x27;s selling a dangerous idea:  that nothing you do matters at all, and, ergo, you might as well do nothing.  I mean, if hard work doesn&#x27;t matter, why bother working hard to begin with, right?<p>As the old saying goes: <i>&quot;It is better to shoot for the stars and miss than aim at the gutter and hit it&quot;</i>.  Or another take on it:  <i>&quot;Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you&#x27;ll land among the stars.&quot;</i><p>So yeah, tell your kids to dream big and work hard.  They&#x27;ll probably go further than if you tell them &quot;life sucks, you have no chance, so just go ahead and do nothing but play video games and smoke weed all day&quot;.