Quote Originally Posted by VictorCharlie View Post
Obviously one's starting point in life is going to affect one's ending point. I don't know how or even if you should rectify this. Parents are going to attempt to give their children the best life they can. How do get the lower socio-economic parents to demand more of their children, push them, explain to them that they will have to worker harder and longer to have a better life? How do you get wealthy people to instill a greater sense of service, responsibility and work ethic?
It is a very complex issue, but I think the worst place to start is to make higher education expensive or to reduce spending on education. I happen to think this modern age of both parents having to work automatically makes life harder for middle class people too. The parents are tired, the child doesn't really see the parents enough and has to fend for himself and thus you see another person being raised without the support they truly deserve. Elizabeth Warren showed the stats, both parents pretty much have to work in this day and age. We are in an age that only cares about economic growth and personal growth has to fall by the wayside as a consequence.

People always say to me here that I have a lot of opinions and that I don't do enough to back it up, but I think I make a very big statement in simply refusing to have children and therefore not contribute to any of this. I think the system is a sick one and it isn't fair to raise children in a lottery of the future. I am not a rich man and so won't get drawn into a silly game of governments simply wanting people being born for their own ends. They do not consider the life of the child and their emotional wellbeing.