The real pernicious thing is the assumption that one cannot improve one's state by improving ones choices and actions. People are not doomed to be poor because their parents are poor. But if a person assumes this to be true, they are indeed dooming themselves to poverty.
The real pernicious thing is the assumption that one cannot improve one's state by improving ones choices and actions. People are not doomed to be poor because their parents are poor. But if a person assumes this to be true, they are indeed dooming themselves to poverty.