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You don't even need to look for the count of billionaires. My grandparents were poor-as-dirt farmers. My dad's education stopped at high school. He even went to
by zdragnar 2y ago
You don't even need to look for the count of billionaires. My grandparents were poor-as-dirt farmers. My dad's education stopped at high school. He even went to a one-room schoolhouse until he was 14.
My brother and I are both college educated and, while not "rich", have a lifestyle and income my grandparents could have only dreamed about.
It is truly painful to watch people preach learned helplessness through failure and destitution as the only possible outcome.
- Gud 2y agoThis is common in Europe as well. I would guess more common than in the US.
- jampekka 2y agoIt's a lot more common for children of poor parents to stay poor in the US than in (most of) Europe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index
- WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y agoMost people in mainland Europe are poor by American middle-class standards.
- mrguyorama 2y agoPeople living in Europe don't seem to agree, since they have the same access to credit cards and yet just choose to spend less. Why oh why do Europeans in general choose to spend less than americans?
- lazyasciiart 2y agoThe relevant metric is not “did your grandparents farm” but “where in the socioeconomic continuum were your parents, and where are you”. In the US, these two answers are more likely to match than in other rich Western countries.