[sidlls]

Whether native or immigrant, rags to riches stories are almost always: a) incomplete (they leave out substantial advantages or good fortune); b) reek of survivorship bias (i.e. ignore the fact that for every success story there are dozens if not hundreds of them with poorer outcomes).

[seoaeu]

Yeah. I know HN doesn't like the social sciences, but people have actually studied social mobility and found how limited it is in the US and similar countries.