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In general I would agree that all people have the same potential... however there all kinds of other forces that have an effect on how one realizes that potential...
One of the economic realities is that there is a link between freedom and equality... you can't have both. You can create more freedom through legislation much as there is in the US but you end up with a lot of inequities... You can legislate equality much like Sweden but you lose a lot of freedom...
That is economics.
There are other forces like class at work in other cultures... The caste system creates inequities based on birth...
So yes, as individual entities stripped of all ideology and societal constraints, we have equal potential. Unfortunately that isn't the way the world works.
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