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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 1547150" data-attributes="member: 56035">corporations pump out propaganda that says "if u dont succeed, its your fault" so that people wont look else where for other sources of blame, like the economic system or government policy or whatever.  oprah really does this with her "positive thinking" and self help gurus do this too.  not to say self help is all bad, but some of it is definitely snake oil.  i lot of young people my age get sucked into this, they think their problems are all personal, and everything else is free of blame.  its obviously not true, and its kinda sad.people who are born in rich families are way more likely to "succeed" than people born in poor families and theres lots of studies on this.  its a no brainer.  free or affordable college would help level the playing field.</blockquote>