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>our opportunities are directly tied to the outcomes of the generation before us They are related, but "directly tied to" seems hyperbolic and deterministic.
by 50656E6973 8y ago
>our opportunities are directly tied to the outcomes of the generation before us
They are related, but "directly tied to" seems hyperbolic and deterministic.
Frederick Douglass is an obvious exceptional example of a human being transcending the outcomes of previous generations.
- rtkwe 8y agoSure he did great doesn't change the fact that individual examples like Frederick Douglass don't negate that fact that intergenerational incomes are pretty inelastic in America. It's a statistical problem across all slices of the population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socioeconomic_mobility_in_the_United_States#/media/File:Intergenerational_mobility_graph-1.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socioeconomic_mobility_in_the_...