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by jackpirate 2785 days ago
Your parents' salaries do a very good job of predicting all of that already.
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bootaccount 2785 days ago
I disagree. My parents emigrated to different lands (with me) to provide me additional opportunity to excel. I'm early into my career and have a higher salary [6fig] than my parents', primarily due to the sacrifices they made over the years.

My job, life and other attributes couldn't have been predicted by salary nor any other vanity metric.

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Joe-Z 2785 days ago
But just the fact that your parents emigrated makes you part of a fringe group.

GP's point, as far as I understand, wasn't that it's impossible to move up the social ladder, just that it doesn't happen for most people.

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dagoat 2785 days ago
> it doesn't happen for most people.

Is there data showing that?

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the_duke 2785 days ago
The only widely available data that comes to mind for me is social mobility aka economic mobility.

It's not so easy to find a good compiled list by country but here s a start (see especially the chart at the bottom): http://www.verisi.com/resources/prosperity-upward-mobility.h...

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lozaning 2785 days ago
Ad nauseum: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/rich-kids-stay-rich-poo...

If you're parents where educated and well off, you'll most likely be aswell, same if your parents are poor and uneducated.

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