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Old 03-21-2022, 12:36 PM
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Only one factor. And imagine if your IQ was 70 and you worked intensely hard - you would still not raise up the social ladder. That proves that "hard work" is merely like icing on a larger cake. You have to have a cake in order to put icing on it. And this is the case whether it is 1950 or whenever.
But hard work is a very large factor. Lets not have the tail wag the dog.