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<blockquote data-quote="trplnkl" data-source="post: 832519" data-attributes="member: 13254"><p><span style="color: sienna"><em><strong> When looking at these two pics, I think you probably see differing levels of opportunity. What I see are <u>possibly</u> two differing results of applied opportunity. There are no stated rules or situations that can identify the results in the pics. There may have well been equal ops but applied effort may have not been equal. </strong></em></span></p><p><span style="color: sienna"><em><strong>I went to school with guys that grew up in families with more money that I ever dreamed of. Some of these same guys had a free ride to a college of their choice, yet screwed it off partying and cutting class until they were kicked out of school and couldn't find another to take them for a couple of years. Instead of learning from their mistakes, they continued to screw off the rest of their early adult years and now work crap jobs with crap pay and can't seem to even get along in society. Now please don't take this wrong, I'm not saying I'm any better than these guys, but I have done more with what little I did have to be a responsible contributing member of the community. Sometimes unequal outcome is directly related to unequal effort, not unequal opportunity. </strong></em></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trplnkl, post: 832519, member: 13254"] [COLOR=sienna][I][B] When looking at these two pics, I think you probably see differing levels of opportunity. What I see are [U]possibly[/U] two differing results of applied opportunity. There are no stated rules or situations that can identify the results in the pics. There may have well been equal ops but applied effort may have not been equal. [/B][/I] [I][B]I went to school with guys that grew up in families with more money that I ever dreamed of. Some of these same guys had a free ride to a college of their choice, yet screwed it off partying and cutting class until they were kicked out of school and couldn't find another to take them for a couple of years. Instead of learning from their mistakes, they continued to screw off the rest of their early adult years and now work crap jobs with crap pay and can't seem to even get along in society. Now please don't take this wrong, I'm not saying I'm any better than these guys, but I have done more with what little I did have to be a responsible contributing member of the community. Sometimes unequal outcome is directly related to unequal effort, not unequal opportunity. [/B][/I][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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