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>The US is a great place to live and work with tremendous upward mobility Always confused by this notion. People act as if the US is the only place this is pos
by deeeeplearning 6y ago
>The US is a great place to live and work with tremendous upward mobility
Always confused by this notion. People act as if the US is the only place this is possible but not only is it possible in most of the western world, there is in fact BETTER mobility in the much of the western world relative to the US. The US isn't even in the Top 10!
https://www.businessinsider.com/countries-where-intergenerational-income-mobility-is-better-than-us-2020-2#1-denmark-it-is-estimated-that-it-would-take-two-generations-for-a-child-in-a-low-income-family-to-earn-the-average-income-in-their-country-12 https://www.businessinsider.com/countries-where-intergenerat...
- oblio 6y agoI guess most people just don't know the numbers and go by gut feeling, mass media and what they learned in (primary/secondary) school many years ago.
- deeeeplearning 6y agoPretty confused by the downvotes. People don't like data? I mean in fact it's worse than people think and you are no longer likely to make more than your parents when a few decades ago you had a 90% chance of doing so. https://www.nber.org/papers/w22910 https://www.nber.org/papers/w22910 Never expected such a ra-ra USA #1 vibe on HN. Especially in the face of data that says otherwise.
- jawzz 6y agoYou’re blatantly misquoting the person you’re replying to.
- deeeeplearning 6y agoIn what way. You would call being 18th in income mobility "tremendous?" I wouldn't.
- s1artibartfast 6y agoWhy not? For you, it seems that "tremendous" means best in class. Where is the cutoff, 1st, 3rd, top 10? For others, being in the top 10 percent of 195+ countries is quite significant. For the average person in the rest of the world, being in the US would provide a significant and meaningful increase in their economic mobility.
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