Everyone deserves a minimum level of chance. Education etc are provided for to all children, but often the less fortunate are in areas that I, as a teacher, wouldn't want to work. I've worked for a few districts with 16% below the poverty line, and one as high as 40%. Their are success stories I've had from both districts from kids as poor as dirt. They've moved on and successfully gone to college while others continue in their parents footsteps being unsuccessful slugs. I believe anyone can make it if they try, and my students respond well to that attitude or break. Either way, I showed little compassion for them, which got me in the hot seat in most jobs until the test scores come out, and pushed them because no one else does. Maybe the areas I have worked in sucked because the kids half the time wanted to make their less ambition getting the night shift at the store mon or dad worked at. I guess my big point is instead of just having massive hand outs to people by stealing from the rich as some suggest, go and mentor a kid. Cutting a check to them just held then sustain instead of elevate. Money isn't the answer to the problems of poor, look at past lotto winners and how frequently they go broke. Someone pulling them kicking and screaming to do their best and improve their own quality of life instead of hope someone else does.

Your life wouldn't be what it is today surely, but I suspect if your story is accurate, someone in your family took a risk to start a business or get involved in a new industry and you reap the rewards of it. That doesn't make whom ever earned that pile of money a bad person, or the guy who didn't a stupid one.

Maybe I'm just a bitter educator who sees kids more worried about likes and followers and kill streaks than being pushed to be better, which I assumed in your situation you were via tutors and Parents etc.