It's truth.
I've known a good many very intelligent people caught in the poverty trap, and even more well-off twats who don't deserve their smug little existences. It does make one mad enough to bite holes in steel.

The most frustrating? When I see one of these really bright people and I tell them how they could get out of that trap- when I point out how they can get an education and get a job making decent money- they take the attitude of what's-the-use and don't even want to look into it, because they've been told all their lives that they'll never amount to a damn thing. So it becomes self-fulfilling...

Grrrr.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 17 Apr 2008, 22:01, Reply)