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Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo
Nicely done!
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OK, so how do we change this so it's easier for people like you and pilotman to fall into lower economic classes?
Improving the lives of the poorest people should one of any society's primary goals, but these charts reflect relative wealth. Even if wealthy suburban Massachusetts there's a "richest" and "poorest". But how do we take people in the higher relative classes and move them to the lower relatives classes? Because that is 100% as necessary to moving people up classes. You can't have more social upward mobility without more social downward mobility.
I'm not opposed to the idea of more social mobility in both directions. But I think where the idea falls apart in practice is that that even who say the right things don't want a system where it's easier for them to fall down.