re: #276 SanFranciscoZionist

Exceptional or lucky people can make their way out of poverty. But that doesn’t change the basic suck-you-down-in-the-mud nature of poverty.

It isn’t just exceptional people who escape poverty by way of education.

Immigrant groups of all kinds have been doing that for decades, in no small measure because of a culture which appreciates academic success.

In places like Appalachia, some inner cities, et., that culture is less established.