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Old 07-17-2012, 01:03 PM
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Originally Posted by raymr View Post
A more realistic analogy is when you have a group of people who receive the same environmental inputs, education, and benefits of living in a modern society. A few, the leaders, will rise up and leverage those assets in new and interesting ways, while the rest sit around and talk about it.

Just because they did more with the same materials doesn't mean they are now more indebted than those who didn't take action.
Not much to disagree with there, but is it your assertion that all of those who are not successful (by whatever arbitrary measure of success) are "those who didn't take action"? In other words, lack of success is always the fault of the one who failed?
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