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by kudos200 4518 days ago
Well, I got curious and found an answer:

"In 1982, 60 percent of the people on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans came from wealthy families, compared with 32 percent in 2011."

http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/research/joshua-rauh-what-f...

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Which speaks nothing of policy changes today, and what effect it will have on the future. Nor what disruption will come about to ensure that that trend continues (we are given no data points in that post other than those two, and we had both the PC revolution and the internet in between 1982 and 2011 to massively shake up entire industries).

More to the point, it speaks nothing on how conditions for those not among the elite have changed in that time, and how they will change over time.

Which means that mobility increased.