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Poor people do have an equal chance. Your chances are based on your intelligence and wit every bit as much as your background. I went from the bailiffs asking me to choose between the pram and pushchair for my baby after the strike in 1985 to selling up my business interests for a few million as my 40th birthday treat, having picked up a gong on the way. Later became a government advisor and visiting professor at a medical school over two universities. My sons, sons of a miner if you want to be romantic about it went to a school with an awful reputation and poor attainment. By their own endeavour, one is a director of a large company with all the trimmings and the other has a PhD and is presently in California designing the next generation of microprocessors."

Is that supposed to prove poor people have an equal chance?
You don't know anything about real life, do you?
It isn't about the poor boy who made good, that's a sop, a fairy tale of Capitalism. I have been in hell, sinks of drug abuse, generations of joblessness. Helpless hopeless people, living in worse conditions than animals.......it is an underclass and it's growing fast...the pitchforks are coming unless people like you alter your self satisfied stance.
You are a sad case Ian, I'm truly sorry for you, but I don't think you deserve it.