Why is a gap between different socio-economic strata amazing? Do people really assume parents have absolutely nothing to add to the table? Only government? Of course they do!
Which means, a gap must by definition exist. That gap is the reason people want to move up a class.
Any program that the state adopts as policy will have a weak implementation. As a family will surely see the stakes and counteract/use it.
Haha, HN doesn't even allow you to delete comments, man. They own your comments in perpetuity in the name of whatever. What's permanent about an IRC channel? Its name?