One thing I think is important to anchor discussions of inequality and mobility is the great gatsby curve: http://glineq.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-schumpeter-ho

One thing I think is important to anchor discussions of inequality and mobility is the great gatsby curve: http://glineq.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-schumpeter-hotel-income-inequality.html http://glineq.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-schumpeter-hotel-inco... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Gatsby_curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Gatsby_curve Basically there are no countries which are both highly unequal and highly meritocratic. Perhaps our path towards more social mobility is straight-forward wealth redistribution.