praha14

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by praha14 8y ago
I understand the argument that, once free from work, a number of people will voluntarily choose to work as physicists or playwrights or mathematicians. What I haven’t understood, though, is why someone would choose to work as a bricklayer o
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by praha14 8y ago
I'm not asking that. I often see the fact that people of color are overrepresented in the prison system presented as an example of their marginalization. If overrepresentation in prison is an example of marginalization, then it seems
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by praha14 8y ago
Isn't overrepresentation in the prison system an instance of marginalization? I often hear as cited as such regarding people of color.
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by praha14 9y ago
Southern states are the most predominately black states in the country. Are you sure you want to bring this up?
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by praha14 9y ago
1. Of course not, I referenced unintelligent wealthy people ("dumb nobility") in my post. 2. 70% of rich families lose their wealth by the second generation, 90% by the third. [A] 3. IQ is a greater predictor of income than parent
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by praha14 9y ago
1. No of course not, but if it's a factor at all we'd expect to see the pattern I described. 2. We're talking about social mobility, not the level of inequality.
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by praha14 9y ago
One thing I've never understood- in a fair society in which people are not artificially limited, wouldn't we expect social mobility to decrease over time as successive generations "sort" themselves into the spots allow
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by praha14 9y ago
"Gender quotas at board level in Europe have done little to boost corporate performance or to help women lower down" Isn't the article saying that they didn't work?