Agree on the class aspect, but it is a bit more nuanced:<p>It really is a question of your family&#x27;s <i>values</i>, not finances. I know a few affluent families who don&#x27;t really value education, and there is enough money for the kids to live off of the family fortune (aka &quot;trust fund kids&quot;).<p>Kids born into white trash families and black-ghetto families are equally fucked, not because they are poor (though it does not help), but because they don&#x27;t have the values and successful role models to follow&#x2F; motivate them.<p>It is not an easy problem to solve - but that&#x27;s a whole other discussion.