Why? My kids don't need scholarships, we can pay for their college. No matter how heard they work, they won't need scholarships. Should they still get them? Or, as a society, are we better off letting me pay out of pocket for my kids education, and making sure someone less well off also gets educated? And why is it work and not talent or ability, my husband got a ton of scholarships for school, and was a very lazy student, but extraordinarily talented. Should a kid who works harder get a scholarship over someone who is just lucky enough to be really smart?
Here is the deal of scholarships...the organization granting the scholarship gets to decide whom to give it to. It may be hard work. It may be a scholarship for children adopted from Peru by Americans of Croatian decent who have trust funds. No one is entitled to a scholarship, the granting organization makes the determination.
Same thing with money. My husband coaches a baseball team with a guy who works his back end off at a blue collar job. He probably works harder than my husband, but my husband has a specific and in demand skill set. Working harder doesnt entitle you to a bigger paycheck. I'm sure Mitt Romney has not worked that much harder than my husbands co coach, but he's made a heck of a lot more money.
The simple truth is that the myth that this is a matter of hard work is just that, a myth. There is a lot more involved in success. Likewise, unfortunately, there is a lot more involved in not being successful than simply being lazy. If the world were that simple, we could let people starve secure in the knowledge that they created their own fate and that we will never be unfortunately circumstances, because fortune would have no role.
Makes me sad that someone would create such a story to get a couple of bucks when the people who really need it and deserve figure it out on their own.
