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> For a lot of families this is the only way for their kids to get out of poverty. By contrast, in countries that have been industrialized for over a century,
by bunderbunder 9y ago
> For a lot of families this is the only way for their kids to get out of poverty.
By contrast, in countries that have been industrialized for over a century, the preceding several generations found that they could relatively easily find low- to moderate-skill factory jobs that secured a reasonably prosperous lifestyle.
There are also industrialized countries with stratified school systems, and I see that some of them fall toward the bottom of the graph.