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		asaph on Oct 13, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It’s better to be born rich than gifted > Just take a look at Wikipedia. There are more people on there with parents who are university professors, doctors or succesfull (sic) entrepreneurs than parents who are farmers. Even though the amount of farmers vastly outnumber the others. Do you have any data to back this up?

askafriend on Oct 14, 2018 [–]

I'm also curious. Strong claims like that require strong evidence.

I'm not just going to take that comment at face value and neither should anyone else.

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