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by prolikewh0a 2839 days ago
>The American Dream is about inter-generational class mobility. If you bust your tail all your life, you can raise your children's quality of life to a higher standard than your own.

Nope. You're just proving my point too. Thanks.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/02/14/american...

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If you care to read it, your article doesn't refute anything about what I said.

> An American born to a household in the bottom 20% of earnings, for instance, only has a 7.8% chance of reaching the top 20% when they grow up.

Again, this article is about intra-generational mobility. The American Dream is about inter-generational mobility.

It shows that your idea of the 'American Dream' is nearly completely dead and a thing of history. The 'American' Dream exists in other first world countries far more than it does here.

If you need another source that social mobility is 'poor' in the USA [1]

[1] http://www.poverty.ac.uk/report-usa-inequality-social-mobili...

> The American Dream is about inter-generational mobility.

You're making that claim without any evidence to back it up.