Everybody also has the same opportunity to be incorrect. However, allow me to concede.

I’m more often wrong. Please may I ask, as I see it everywhere. Sentences that begin with everybody are almost never actually accurate.

Everybody is born? Maybe. Everybody breathes? My point is — there seems to be a hunger for universal declarations that your point does not require. I loved the one about Traf and would read your stuff even if you did allow that you might err.

In the American context (Wow. Pardon me for burying the lede this deep.) suggesting that we all have the same chance at wealth is fighting words.

That is true because, aside from folks who wrote about how anyone can be anything, the US is designed so only a few make wealth. The founders and generations to follow spent many years, and worked very hard to make very sure that our elites and wealthy were specifically these people but not those people.

It is a testament to industrial strength social engineering that here, we can be surrounded by one thing, yet swear it’s another .

One thing meaning — a society literally defined by radical inequality, so famous that the term going South is globally known as a kind of cosmic suck. We spend more on health, live shorter lives and scream about how great we have it before finally believing COVID is real, as one example.

All of which to say — branding and reality differ. I am flawed. However, the data regarding lifespan, income, the movement of poor people away from poverty when compared to global peers or, you know, not dying from pandemics — seems a tad convincing.

I would submit that your statement about equal chances resembles nothing like the truth.