Fantastic phrasing. It’s the false promise that has made me a field-leveling liberal. It’s difficult to see just how much privilege and unlikely chance goes into the making of most boot-strap success stories. If you’re born in this country, with good health, near the middle class, to parents who read to you, you’re born armed to the teeth with privilege most of the world will never know. How different our country would be if we were more grateful for that and more generous with how we open doors for people who didn’t start with it.