<i>It&#x27;s just some of those start-up pumpers keep ignoring this fundamental truth.</i><p>And they should, because it&#x27;s irrelevant.  You can&#x27;t change your parents, ya know.  In the end, you play the hand you&#x27;re dealt.  If you&#x27;re not from a rich family, maybe you just have to work that much harder, but I don&#x27;t think the moral is &quot;you were born poor, so just STFU and accept your lot in life&quot;.<p>If someone wants to be an entrepreneur, they will find a way, even if they&#x27;re from a poor family.  Note that I&#x27;m not saying they&#x27;ll all build billion dollar Internet companies - the range of what &quot;entrepreneur&quot; encompasses is pretty broad.<p><i>Rising from poor like what&#x27;s in Godfather movies is still possible, but very unlikely.</i><p>So? There&#x27;s a binary difference between &quot;unlikely&quot; and &quot;impossible&quot;.  Should we all avoid striving for anything that&#x27;s &quot;unlikely&quot;?  Most kids who play high-school football will never even get a scholarship at a BCS school, much less play in the NFL.  Most kids who play football for BCS schools will never play in the NFL.  Should kids stop dreaming of being NFL players?<p>What if nobody bothered to dream anymore? What if nobody said &quot;Fuck it, I can overcome the odds and do the unlikely?&quot;  Personally, I don&#x27;t want to live in that world.