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> But it turns out that in the US socioeconomic status and race are closely linked, at least in the aggregate In every country socioeconomic status is linked t
by anon291 2y ago
> But it turns out that in the US socioeconomic status and race are closely linked, at least in the aggregate
In every country socioeconomic status is linked to subgroup culture and across the world different cultures have very different outcomes. That is not surprising. Neither the world nor people are uniform.
- superb_dev 2y ago“It’s always been like this” has never been a good reason for things to stay the same.
- anon291 2y agoI have offered no justification or even an insinuation that it should continue. However it is a common thought today that the US is particularly bad at race. It's not
- PostOnce 2y agoIs there some country I'm unaware of where the poor don't underperform on every metric relative to the wealthy? Money buys education, security/safety, health, access to social networks, and everything else, so why wouldn't the poor underperform? I would think that the world is pretty uniform in that wealth solves a great deal of problems and poverty solves few.
- defrost 2y agoLess uniform in decile wealth distribution, less uniform in quartile mobility. Some countries have a softer landing for the poor, a more equitable spread of wealth, and greater opportunity for mobility from one group to another. Other countries have more of a walled garden about elites, less bracket mobility, and worse circumstances for the poor.