If a person "makes something of themselves", they likely went to a public school, had a home that was built to a certain standard, and was heated with publicly funded utilities, and grew into a healthy adult because of life saving medical developments.
Be careful where this argument is coming from. It is also being promoted as a reason to oppose individual rights for the sake of whatever the oligarchy deems the common good.
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One day humanity will come to realize society needs to build from a focus of the bottom up and not the top down.
Try building a skyscraper top/down.