Argument 1: ​Government systems dissolving class system (via education and healthcare)

Let’s also address this in terms of privilege. Although capitalism has pushed individuals to work
harder overtime and has led to a couple of advances. It has also stifled change as it has led to the
establishment of the concept privilege overtime. Although there is the idea that success can be
achieved if individuals work hard towards their goals, this isn’t always true as it is at times
dependent on our race, gender, etc and hindered by our environmental factors and our birth
order.

● Specifically, for instance, in accordance to the ​The U.S. Department of Education’s

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Office for Civil Rights,​ a study that for in order for ​Asian-American students to gain
​ admission ​into Harvard, they have to have SAT scores 140 points higher than white
students, 270 points higher than Hispanic students, and 450 points higher than
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African-American students. ​Capitalism has also shifted the starting line for both the
children of the elites and the lower class, whereas success is easier to achieve for those
children of the elites.

● Also, in accordance to the Conversation, ​many Americans assume that federal law
protects the right to education. Why wouldn’t it? Although, all 50 state constitutions
provide for education. ​ The same is true in ​ 170 other countries. Yet, the word “education”
does not appear in the United States Constitution, and​ federal ​ courts have rejected the
idea that education is important enough that it should be protected anyway.

● In accordance to boston.com, ​most of these assertions, however, are nonsense. Of course

the odds are stacked against every applicant since the best schools admit only a fraction
of them (less than 10 percent for most of the Ivies and just above 25 percent for selective
schools like Northwestern and Emory), but as Daniel Golden demonstrated in a Pulitzer
​ ​ and then in his book, “The Price of
Prize-winning series for the Wall Street Journal
Admission,’’ the so-called “best’’ schools give heavy preferences to the wealthy; as many
as one-third of admissions, he writes, are flagged for special treatment at the elite
universities, one-half at the elite liberal arts colleges, and the number of open spaces for
the non-privileged is reduced accordingly. As Golden puts it, the privileged take so many
spots that the “admissions odds against middle-class and working-class students with
outstanding records are even longer than the colleges acknowledge.’’

Conclusion:​ Is this what you deem as equality and equal opportunity?

Works Cited:
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/10/a-federal-investigation-into-reverse-discr
imination-at-harvard/542220/
https://theconversation.com/the-constitutional-right-to-education-is-long-overdue-88445
http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/01/10/the_college_a
dmissions_scam/