I'm not sure how to comment specifically on a person's post but this is for username khermes09:

You picked an intersting quote and I agree with you that if a person works hard enough they can change their socioeconomic fate. Fact of the matter is most people who are born poor, die poor and vice versa. Even if you work really hard, how far out of your class does one really get? I guess it all depends on the person and what kind of education they get. Still even if you are only able to rise only a level above the status you had growing up, you still broke through a barrier. Hopefully it can only go upward from there when that person has a family of their own assumng their children work "hard enogh".

urvashisingh,

I like your post. Money, it seems, is everything these days. People with it use it to get ahead and help their children get ahead. With money comes resources and connections. They say money can't buy happiness but it would make those who are destitute a little happier. Chances are if you have the resources to provide to your children, you will use them. All of us if given a chance to get these resources would do the same.

This article is very interesting. One thing I found intersting about Murray's article is when he states "The haves in our society are increasingly cocooned in a system that makes it easy for their children to continue to be haves". He then goes on to say that the haves should recognize the divide and act to dimish the advantages that come with it. Parents will always do whatever it takes to get there children ahead of others. Even if the more priviledged recognize that they will have an advanteage becasue of their parents' connections what will they do? Will they tell their parents "no, its not fair" or will they quietly continue to revel in their good fortune?
I once read an article a few years back dealing with the idea of white priviledge. The article says that there is really nothing you can do about it except accept it and acknowledge that you have it, if you are white that is. Acknowledgment is a great first step in both these cases, but how can we go about changing it, if such a thing is even possible in America?