You're the one talking about ceilings. His point is that true social mobility would be literally hitting the random button repeatedly. It's obviously not a wor

You're the one talking about ceilings. His point is that true social mobility would be literally hitting the random button repeatedly. It's obviously not a workable idea. Someone has to lose, even if you perform a magical full reset once per year, in any given year half of the people will be below average. The goal of course is that we make sure that everyone has a decent life even if they're not at the top. I think you've jumped on his comment and assumed that he doesn't care at all about anyone who's not in the top N% which isn't a charitable reading.