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by mturmon 4491 days ago
This is such an un-informed comment. It is completely ignorant of American history. You understand that American game-rigging like redlining, and unequal drug sentencing, and racial profiling, exist now and/or have existed in the lifetimes of most adults today?

Sure, some people get lucky, or work really hard. But on average, the game is rigged.

If you want to overcome your ignorance of this topic, you might want to check out Ta-Nehisi Coates' blog. He's excellent on these issues. Some starting points that relate to what you've written --

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/02/i-am-sti...

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/01/the-cham...

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I wonder if he believes that the poorest Indians, if only they worked harder, could be here starting companies.
> Sure, some people get lucky, or work really hard. But on average, the game is rigged.

It's rigged really badly against immigrants (counting H1B workers as immigrants too) as well.