If they want to succeed, people just have to work.
This sentence is the affirmation of the dogma of equal opportunity.
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On the one hand, it assumes that all individuals have received sufficient qualities of their own, as well as a quality education, giving them a real chance of succeeding on their own.
What are the chances, in a democracy, of an individual whose neurons have been largely fried because the mother drank, and who has received as an education only paternal violence, sexual abuse from uncles, and failure
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On the other hand, he denies nepotism, ie the fact that success is largely the product of chance, and even more of the social power of the family network.
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Les caractères 3(IV) de La Bruyère : « Ce qui disculpe le fat ambitieux de son ambition est le soin que l'on prend, s'il a fait une grande fortune, de lui trouver un mérite qu'il n'a jamais eu, et aussi grand qu'il croit l'avoir. »
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