I recently read a blog named “Is opportunity declining?” by Becker. It has several interesting ideas about how the opportunities available for children with high-income parents is vary from that of children with low-level income parents. However, he seemed to miss out on a very important aspect about opportunities and success.

The blogger mentioned that despite the high differences in money and time spent on the two categories of children, there is a small gap present in opportunities and success levels achieved. However, he did not take into consideration the advent of technology. He takes the time frame of 1970s to 1990s. In this time period, internet has made phenomenal advancements. Despite being cost-free, it is one of the finest methods of achieving success, as there is a broad spectrum of opportunities available to capitalize on the internet. One could literally make thousands of dollars by simply making a video and posting it on YouTube! This thus shows that how the notion of success and opportunities varies along different time frames and is thus a hard concept to evaluate.