Americans love the false Horatio Alger stories, and have a very hard time understanding that not only was he a baldfaced liar, when we perpetuate the lie of meritocracy we continue to make it ever harder for others. This whole article pisses me off for this reason. I get so tired of "just go do it," as though there is genuinely ANY kind of equal footing for all people. You should see the folks who are staying at the Motel Six where I am right now. They are teetering on the edge of disaster, these cheap motels now America's housing units, full of desperate folks trying to stitch together a life from what's left of stale breadcrumbs.