3 ms·
While America seems to spend a lot of time talking about "how to improve / change yourself", and the "American Dream", every study I've seen (for example https:
by CJefferson 5y ago
While America seems to spend a lot of time talking about "how to improve / change yourself", and the "American Dream", every study I've seen (for example https://www3.weforum.org/docs/Global_Social_Mobility_Report.pdf https://www3.weforum.org/docs/Global_Social_Mobility_Report.... ), shows it does poorly for social mobility.
- adolph 5y agoThe two items seem not incongruent. According to that report, the US is a half standard deviation above the median of social mobility. It isn't charitable to characterize that as doing "poorly."
- xyzelement 5y agoI bet that people who subscribe to the mobility mindset are statistically more mobile than those who don't believe it's possible.
- TrispusAttucks 5y agoIndeed. But revolutionary defeatism [1] is so in vogue at the moment. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_defeatism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_defeatism
- potatoman22 5y agoIf one doesn't focus on improving themselves, then what do they do? Pass through life, hoping it will treat them well?