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"What we actually have in the US is some degree of social mobility within the middle class." The article seems to contradict that: "Using one-generation measu
by Uchikoma 14y ago
"What we actually have in the US is some degree of social mobility within the middle class."
The article seems to contradict that:
"Using one-generation measures of social mobility—how much a father’s relative income influences that of his adult son—America does half as well as Nordic countries, and about the same as Britain and Italy, Europe’s least-mobile places."
- svachalek 14y agoMichael is saying people within the US middle class can do better or worse than their parents, but children are unlikely to rise or fall to a completely different class. This is orthogonal to any comparison with Sweden.