> the economy has the lowest social mobility of any 1st world country. I'm not disagreeing with your general point here, but an interesting dimensions to this

> the economy has the lowest social mobility of any 1st world country. I'm not disagreeing with your general point here, but an interesting dimensions to this fact: There's some recent evidence that social mobility net of transfers in countries at the top of these rankings are no better than the US's. Now obviously the redistribution itself makes a big difference to QoL, but it's an interesting wrinkle in the claim that inequality is driven by skewed access to good schooling, childcare, parental benefits, etc. It seems theoretically obvious, but the data apparently doesnt support it: either a counterfactual Denmark with US policies would have much lower mobility or these investments are ineffective. I'm still in support of all of these policies, but it is pretty troubling that they don't have the effects you'd expect.