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by SolaceQuantum 2442 days ago
"I don't buy the thesis that some people are born into an oppressed class and can't escape it."

How does this match with the economist that determined that climbing out of poverty requires 20 years of nothing going wrong on average? [0][1]

0. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/economi...

1. HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16794514