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If you click through the headline for that first claim is "The 12 countries where poor children are more likely to get rich and actually achieve the American Dr
by adamjb 6y ago
If you click through the headline for that first claim is "The 12 countries where poor children are more likely to get rich and actually achieve the American Dream than in the US". It's a claim about social mobility, not inequality. I don't think the author is reading the data backwards
- makomk 6y agoWell, that'd probably explain South Africa - the end of apartheid there has done wonders for the number of black South Africans in better-off jobs, even if it hasn't done all that much good for overall inequality or the economy as a whole, and I suspect this one-off event has messed with however they're measuring social mobility.
- MrPowers 6y agoIt links to this article with a graph showing that Brazil and South Africa have some of the worst income mobility in the world: https://www.businessinsider.com/countries-where-intergenerational-income-mobility-is-better-than-us-2020-2 https://www.businessinsider.com/countries-where-intergenerat... I live in Colombia and was in Brazil recently. They're both amazing countries with great people. Go to a comuna or favela and you'll quickly see that it's incredibly difficult for lower income people in these countries to climb into a different social class.