Kristof's U.S.A. Land of Limitations.

 Kristof's U.S.A. Land of Limitations, a short, but profound article stating that we, as humans, end up where we begin. America has always been portrayed as the "land of opportunity", the American dream which is becoming further and further out of reach depending out where you start out.
"That's a lovely aspiration, the vision that brought Rubio's father to the United States- and my father, too. Yet, I fear that by 2015 we've become the socially rigid society our forebears fled, replicating the barriers and class gaps that drove them away. " Kristoff. Where you start, and what class you are in, determines where you end up. Many have climbed out of it, but that's simply not always the case.
The statistics in this article are very disturbing. There is a direct correlation between how well your parents are off, or even your grand parents; as to how well you will do. "The chance of a person who was born to a family in the bottom 10 percent of the income distribution rising to the top 10 percent as an adult is about the same as the chance that a dad who is 5 feet 6 inches tall having a son who grows up to be over 6 feet 1 inch tall."Discouraging at best, but there's still always the chance that it could happen.
The article goes on further describing a particular  person "Rick". Unsuccessful through all his years of schooling, without proper support, he ultimately quit school and went into the work force. His father was a drunk and left him and his siblings. How did this give Rick and his siblings a chance at life to be successful? It truly didn't. Sickening actually. This created a pattern for the rest of Rick's life. Two unsuccessful marriages, a single Dad while collecting disability, he didn't seem to climb out of the class in which he was born into, now did he?
There's a flip side to this in which you are born into a much higher class, with a sense of entitlement.
Do you continue to stay in that class with little to no effort? This is where income plays a much higher role than the environment of a lower class. My opinion, this is such a double standard. There are less consequences to your actions when you have the income to support your decisions. A teen like "Rick" drops out of school. Does that child still have more opportunities because of the higher income class in which they are in? Yes. Obviously, yes.