US Social Mobility Debate
The cluster centers on debates about social mobility in the US compared to European countries, with commenters citing sources like the Global Social Mobility Index to argue that the US has lower mobility than popularly believed, countering myths of high American opportunity.
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Not according to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index
Most statistics contradict you, despite the popular impression. The US has lower social mobility than most European countries.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index
Social mobility is lower in US. Sources are easy to find, you can start at https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/america...
The US of A actually has the worst social mobility of OECD countries.https://www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobi...
> Several large studies of mobility in developed countries in recent years have found the US among the lowest in mobility. One study (“Do Poor Children Become Poor Adults?") found that of nine developed countries, the United States and United Kingdom had the lowest intergenerational vertical social mobility with about half of the advantages of having a parent with a high income passed on to the next generation.The above quote from wikipedia article on mobility in the US [1] highligts
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=433866
In the US your odds of going from impoverished to wealthy are extraordinarily good. I personally know dozens of examples, even excluding tech entirely. Social mobility is a term of art in economics and only weakly correlated with the ease of becoming wealthy. It doesn’t mean economic mobility.Social mobility is a measure of relative rank change. In countries with compressed wage ranges, such as those you mention, “social mobility” is an artifact of the mathematics, it doesn’t mean you
Could be due to lack of social mobility http://goo.gl/K8Pg
Perhaps. But the trends are not encouraging.https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/social-mobility-upwar...
I would look into stats on social mobility by country.Social mobility in the US is still pretty good last time I checked. Most European countries have have lower income income inequality, but less mobility. Eg, the difference between the bottom and top 25‰ is smaller, but your birth class is more predictive of your future income.