[mkautzm]

That's the American dream if you were born into the means of achieving the American dream.

Libertarians seem to universally believe that everyone is just born with wealth, or that if you bootstraps hard enough, you are just bound to trip over wealth.

[hueving]

That strawman is just about the same as saying, 'liberals seem to universally believe that nobody could be incompetent and every personal outcome is controlled by everyone else instead of personal decisions.'

[mkautzm]

Close, but more something like:

"Liberals seem to universally believe that the status you are born into will probably be the status you stay in your entire life."

The important distinction here is that competence isn't a factor and that the above statement is true in every measurable way.

[hueving]

It might be true that some people hold the belief but the belief is not true in "every measurable way". Otherwise you would never have stories of poor people becoming rich.