<p>Poor students have the following advantage: everything they do means more than a richer student doing the same thing… even when it shouldn’t. As an objectively disadvantaged person, I feel that I get a lot handed to me because of society’s need to overcompensate for what I did not and do not have. I think, if you could put a monetary value on intelligence and drive, it would easily beat every other possible advantage. As a side note, that’s why I did not buy the movie 21 AT ALL. The smartest, most driven guy at MIT is never, NEVER going to be in a position where those particular traits will not make him succeed. </p>
<p>In other words - no, I do not want to stay in my income bracket forever. I am very happy with the person it has made me, though. I would not trade that for billions of dollars. The experiences I’ve had have - here’s that word - ENRICHED me. What a wonderful advantage.</p>