It’s impossible, and yet the bootstraps narrative drives out good policy. Back in the 1800s, the expression “pull oneself up by the bootstraps” meant the opposite of what it does now. Then it was used mockingly to describe an impossible act.
from Pocket https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/19/opinion/economic-mobility.html
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