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by hashmymustache 1829 days ago
How about high income through athletics or modeling? Should any two children be equally likely to make it professionally?
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Sure, genes and other accidents of birth make the model more complex. But still, in our current society, if you were to take two identical twins and separated them from birth and made various income families raise them, and repeat this experiment 100s of times, you would still see remarkably little mobility.