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Can't wait until my mate, my job, my life, and my position in society is decided before I am even born :) Yay!

• jackpirate 8y ago
  Your parents' salaries do a very good job of predicting all of that already.
  • bootaccount 8y ago
    I disagree. My parents emigrated to different lands (with me) to provide me additional opportunity to excel. I'm early into my career and have a higher salary [6fig] than my parents', primarily due to the sacrifices they made over the years. My job, life and other attributes couldn't have been predicted by salary nor any other vanity metric.
    • Joe-Z 8y ago
      But just the fact that your parents emigrated makes you part of a fringe group. GP's point, as far as I understand, wasn't that it's impossible to move up the social ladder, just that it doesn't happen for most people.
      • dagoat 8y ago
        > it doesn't happen for most people. Is there data showing that?
        • the_duke 8y ago
          The only widely available data that comes to mind for me is social mobility aka economic mobility. It's not so easy to find a good compiled list by country but here s a start (see especially the chart at the bottom): http://www.verisi.com/resources/prosperity-upward-mobility.htm http://www.verisi.com/resources/prosperity-upward-mobility.h...
        • lozaning 8y ago
          Ad nauseum: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/rich-kids-stay-rich-poor-kids-stay-poor/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/rich-kids-stay-rich-poo... If you're parents where educated and well off, you'll most likely be aswell, same if your parents are poor and uneducated.