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by extradego 2935 days ago
The idea of democracy as a “rejection of aristocracy” has been well discredited for centuries now.

The topic of discussion here is not “social” but economic mobility. Let’s not mix them up so carelessly. Economic mobility is a measure of ability, or potential, not concrete events. To discuss “downward” economic mobility is to imagine wealth being forced upon these folk.