&gt;If you&#x27;re born into the middle class you&#x27;ll have a much easier time getting further in life than if you&#x27;re born into a poor, crime-ridden neighborhood with bad schools.<p>That&#x27;s a caricature of the problem. You don&#x27;t need to live in a bad neighborhood. You only need to live in a community where people don&#x27;t talk about starting businesses, don&#x27;t know how to start businesses, or never made friends with anybody who owned a successful business. No connections = low chance of success.