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Do you live in America? You seem to be under the mistaken impression that it is a zero sum game. It isn’t.
by quaddoggy 2mo ago
Do you live in America? You seem to be under the mistaken impression that it is a zero sum game. It isn’t.
- jhbadger 2mo agoYes I do live in America - and nothing I've said has anything to do with zero sum economics - only that examples of people succeeding has no bearing on how likely it is in general. The "American Dream" implies that economic mobility is 1) likely in America and 2) more likely there than in other places. This can be and has been measured and the results are not in general optimistic e.g. https://news.yale.edu/2025/02/20/tracking-decline-social-mobility-us-and-how-reverse-trend https://news.yale.edu/2025/02/20/tracking-decline-social-mob...