And yet despite all the talk about the American Dream, social mobility in the US is uncommonly low amongst the Western democracies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik

And yet despite all the talk about the American Dream, social mobility in the US is uncommonly low amongst the Western democracies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility#/media/File:The_Great_Gatsby_Curve.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility#/media/File:Th... The US is right there with deindustrialized Britain and Italy with its massive North-South divide. These are not exactly models to emulate.