Reply #9: It's still alive.... [View All]

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...just harder to attain these days. But still, if one has the drive to succeed, most will. It takes more than just waking up, going to work, and going to bed. It takes extra effort....it always has. Now that good paying manufacturing jobs are all but obsolete, the middle-class has shrunk, and the disparity in wages will keep them down until something is done to relieve that. By something, I mean an effort by businesses and corporations to invest in their employees again, instead of placing all the emphasis on the bottom line and pacifying investors and paying CEOs obscene salaries. Seems all the executives want only to enrich themselves at the expense of those who actually do the work!