The Social Origins of Inventors [pdf]
Researchers should stop producing this type of misleading content that clearly started out with a hypothesis driven by an agenda.<p>There are so many things that drive people to become what they become. Even using the &quot;inventor&quot; example, not everyone whose parents are rich has desire to invent something. If anything, it&#x27;s the opposite. Most rich people are satisfied with the world around them so they just &quot;fit in&quot; to the world. There&#x27;s not enough motivation for them.<p>The ones that do come up with world changing inventions in many cases are outsiders. These people are not satisfied with the world around them, that&#x27;s why they invent something to fix what they think is broken.<p>So while I do agree that if you&#x27;re too poor, you probably don&#x27;t get enough education to know what you can or cannot fix,  and you probably don&#x27;t have the money to sustain yourself, I do not like what this &quot;research&quot; will be actually used for--it will be used for people who want to use it as an excuse not to invent something.<p>&quot;See some Harvard researchers proved that you can&#x27;t become an inventor if your parents are not rich, my parents are not rich and look what i have become. it&#x27;s all my parent&#x27;s fault! (while doing nothing but sitting around living a pathetic life)&quot;<p>If you look at a lot of people who actually achieved things that made a difference, a lot of them were at the bottom of their lives before they created their masterpiece. J.K. Rowling was broke when she was writing Harry Potter. Van Gogh died before any of his art became famous. Nikola Tesla had a sad life. Howard Schultz grew up in a housing complex before going to build the Starbucks empire. Larry Ellison grew up in a poor family under adoptive mother.<p>I don&#x27;t see any value this type of research adds to society. If anything, it will only make one more person give up her&#x2F;his dream because &quot;some Harvard researcher said you won&#x27;t become an inventor because your parents are poor.&quot;