Exactly,
If you are good at what you do, and have passion in it and work hard. You will always be successful. Regardless of what school you have completed.
Far from the truth, being good at what you do, and having passion, does not mean you will succeed.
Location, and access to resources/opportunities FAR out weigh your actual ability to succeed.
Though, success is a matter of opinion to certain extents, but if we are talking about seer money making, and exposure, one being born in the USA has a far better chance of reaching the status of a millionaire and a superstar compared to, well, the rest of the world.
That has nothing to do with actual ability, passion, or hard work.
I will show a couple examples, though I am sure you will just shut them down without base, or thought of how the real world works.
There are plenty of young men/teenagers all across Europe, and even Australia, South Africa and New Zealand, that would make extraordinarily amazing American Football players, but due to their birth location, never had access to the programs/systems that make up the athletic structure in the USA, and thus will almost never get all recognized for their potential in the sport.
To be an American Football player, you pretty much have to be bred to take part in it (pee wee leagues, jr high team, highschool team, college, etc etc), and if you aren't apart of that system, you will always be overlooked, even if you are an amazing athlete.
We can also look at the music scene in Europe... being a musician that was born in Europe, pretty much means you will never have access to the multi-billion dollar industry in the USA. Very few talented musicians born in Europe will never see even a quarter of the success that American musicians get, despite being more talented (objective), and working more.
There just isn't as much of a structured system/industry compared to the USA.
There is also not an obsessive culture of greed when compared to the USA, ie, people (culturally speaking), are not driven as much to make tons and tons of money, and more concerned about the nature and quality of their life.
To get back on topic though, I see many of you are comparing how much you make an hour..
Success really isn't a 1 to 1 ratio with how much money you make, and nor is it a 1 to 1 ratio with how happy of a person you are.
Raising the minimum wage isn't a matter of letting people live 'in luxury' as some of you made it out to be, but allowing people to be respected in what work they perform, and to be able to live and thrive.
Not live in a manner that is similar to slavery, without almost any signs of escape.
If a person puts in a full weeks worth of work, week in and week out, they have the RIGHT to be able to live off of it. That's regardless of the work preformed.
That doesn't mean those with more 'skilled'/'labor driven jobs will be paid the same, they will continue to make more from their work as well.
The only people that would see a pay cut would be those that are grossly overpaid, and it would be for the benefit of all.
Government must play a rule in stopping the greed of the corporate world from dominating the lives of everyday people, abusing them, lowering the standard of living.
We also DO NOT LIVE IN A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY, we have a much better standard of life, and to see some of you basically say that people deserve to live in poverty in this country is a shame.
We have too much wealth and resources to allow people in the USA to live in poverty, and we shouldn't let our fellow countrymen fail, we should be there to help pick them up, and help them succeed. No one should be left behind.
We also have a standard of living. We shouldn't create a society that is okay with people living in their cars because they are so deep in debt, due to them being paid so little.
We shouldn't think it's okay to let people live in the streets, or to suffer wondering where there next meal is gonna come from. Thats not a life I want, and it's not a society I want to live in, we can create (and have) a society that prevents that.
But slowly the right to thrive and prosper is being taking away by bankers and CEO's that see fit to pay people a slaves wage, and harass people to the point of suicide when it comes to 'debt'.
