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> Social mobility is not what "land of opportunity means" it's not meant to be an equal society in the normal sense. It's meant to be a society with opportuniti
by danmaz74 9y ago
> Social mobility is not what "land of opportunity means" it's not meant to be an equal society in the normal sense. It's meant to be a society with opportunities.
Social equality and social mobility are almost opposite ideas. Mobility measures how likely (easy) it is to climb up the ladder, if you're good and/or lucky. Equality measures how steep/long is the ladder - in a totally equal society, there wouldn't be a ladder at all, so there would be zero social mobility.
- ThomPete 9y agoYes and the Denmark isn't doing any better than the US when it comes to that. Again I refer to the OP who started talking about a selfish US .
- MaxBarraclough 9y agoYou fail to distinguish equality of opportunity from equality of outcome.
- danmaz74 9y agoI interpreted "equality" from the OP as equality of outcome, it looked pretty clear in that context.