In fact, the US has some of the lowest class mobility in the industrialized world. It's the first and most basic fact that anyone who argues that US-style corpo

In fact, the US has some of the lowest class mobility in the industrialized world. It's the first and most basic fact that anyone who argues that US-style corporate capitalism is "meritocratic" should have to contend with. Many European countries have far more class mobility, especially ones with strong social welfare systems like the Scandinavian ones https://www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobility/ https://www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobi...