[JamesianP]

US culture doesn't trap people in minimum wage jobs their entire lives. Even fast food places have raises and promotions. Maybe you're being hyperbolic there? It does generally require people to work and try, which can appear impossible if they lack a working parent or other role model to help them believe they can do it. This is not something welfare solves though. It possibly makes it worse. Something like shop classes in schools (which used to exist) and apprenticeships would be a direct solution, because as we constantly hear, the jobs are there looking for people.

[GekkePrutser]

I was exaggerating yes but for you really think someone from a ghetto has the same chances at a decent life as someone from a well-off family?

[roflyear]

They're being ethnocentrists. Or, racist.