On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:54 AM, William Conger <[email protected]>wrote:
> ...It comes down to the old struggle between 'rights by opportunity' or > 'rights by > condition'. Some people, always the ones who have superior rights by > condition, > want to deny those same rights to others and claim that the inferior > conditions > of others are set by some divine code. The most they will allow is that > those > others can earn their way toward a new condition by making their own > opportunities. Then they restrict those opportunities by many insidious > means, > replacing the harsh, rigid reality with a foggy mythologizing such as > "anyone > can make good with hard work"... - If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire. George Monbiot
