Why would you blame anyone, you are responsible for yourself. It also doesn't matter if you work smart, only luck or moral ambiguity are the only ways to break into the Upper Echelon. My complaint about Capitalism is not because of my middle class monetary range but because people claim it to be way better than it is and don't even think of other options. Even in your description of how to make it, you are ruling out people genetically that have physical, mental aliments that prevent them from working hard or smart and you are also abandoning those that didn't get an education from no fault of there own. Capitalism assumes that everyone has equal abilities and those that don't use there abilities to the fullest are themselves to blame for there role in life.
"I" am abandoning those who...?
"Capitalism assumes"
"only luck or moral ambiguity are the only ways to break into the Upper Echelon"
Nonsense. Garbage.
people claim it to be way better than it is and don't even think of other options.
Perhaps some do. To generalize so is not
helpful or realistic, but bespeaks only prejudice.
you are ruling out people
Nonsense.
YOU have been ruling it out that anyone could
make it via hard work. Or, connections
and / or immorality.
I appreciate that you agree that it is not really
so, and that working hard can bring success.*
I am not ruling out anyone. There are those
who are not going to make it though. The
reasons are many, the quick fix is not apparent.
don't use there abilities to the fullest are themselves to blame for there role in life.
Thus the term "wastrel". Many people find they
reap what the sow.
Again there are many reasons why people fall
through the cracks.
Smart capitalism recognizes this, and those who
are "differently abled" etc. It is enlightened self
interest, tho not universally observed, to take
care thro' welfare, jobs programs etc to keep
those needing such from forming a permanent
rebellious underclass.
* Now, I am I suppose, one of those awful
capitalists who got lucky. My family has
major areal estate holdings in HK, among
other things-so it all just falls in my lap.
BUT-I have also traveled and visited
fairly extensively in third world countries.
I am well aware of the flood of would-be
immigrants to the USA from many such
countries. They'd love to face the system
here, for all its imperfections.
I know people from Asia who came to the
US penniless and are now doing very well.
Some perspective on one's sad lot in the USA
might be gained by seeing how bad off we really
are here, compared.