Success Is An Accident Of Birth

The vast majority of the affluent and successful were born into that destiny. A predetermined path with access to the best in education and lifestyle choices; a capability to concentrate without the stresses of not knowing where food is coming from or watching parents crumble; to nurture a mind not spoiled by the harshness of life on the breadline; contacts and opportunities to network with industry leaders and influential peers in their field.

The vast majority of the poor and vulnerable were born into that destiny. Why should those that have to struggle against the odds and adversity to maintain any form of equality and stability be punished further by disgusting, immoral, yet calculated neoliberal cuts, designed to keep them from achieving, so that those at the opposite end of the accident of birth lottery can flourish further?

There should be no road out of austerity on the backs of the vulnerable. Those with the means and strength to pull up their weak brothers and sisters have an obligation to do so.

No one is free until everyone is free.