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I'm from Sweden were the things you are talking about doesn't apply, getting into our best colleges isn't particularly hard and private schools you have to pay

I'm from Sweden were the things you are talking about doesn't apply, getting into our best colleges isn't particularly hard and private schools you have to pay for are almost non-existent. Yet there are still a significant gap in how much people earn, and kids from rich families still do much better in school and college than kids from poor families.

bumby 7y ago
Fair enough. At least here in the States, Scandinavian countries are often portrayed as more equitable on relative terms. Do you know how Sweden's inequality compares to the U.S. quantitatively? The training for schooling outlined in the book is often independent of the school structure (e.g., tutoring, test prep etc.). The upper echelons didn't think it was uncommon to spend $100k per student on this extra training. The authors point was that training works and that the rich have more advantages to educating and training their kids
- xyzzyz 7y ago
  > Do you know how Sweden's inequality compares to the U.S. quantitatively? By the Gini coefficient, the inequality is much lower, but the social mobility rate is about the same. http://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/The%20Son%20Also%20Rises/Sweden%202014.pdf http://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/The%20Son%20A...