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Naiuru says, citing Norberg, who social mobility in America is enormous. The data cited are basically convincing, but essentially stupid, because they are not measuring social mobility at all.

The idea Norberg data is that the probability that someone which is in the bottom quintile is now in the same quintile in 10 or 20 years is very low, ergo, social mobility is huge. The problem is that this is not a tribute to the fact that if you work hard to prosper in the U.S., is in fact the life history of the cities in any country fair.

When you start your career you're a piltrafilla pathetic and sad. You have no experience, no you do anything, and do not want more than to make poor fellow, serving coffee and as much as a sad repetitive milerurista doing odd jobs. Over the years, however, you start to climb, you know more, you have experience and have a track record that demonstrates that you do not drown in a glass of water, so little to make your salary increase, unless you're a special idiot. In other words, the poorest 20% of the population there are many people that is not really poor, just, or is in college or just starting to work, gaining little in spite of being the boss's son.

The problem in America is not the individual social mobility, and most people tend to go up forever. The problem is intergenerational mobility, which is what really counts: to what extent the income level of parents determines your social status will have the children. In other words, equality of opportunity in real terms, namely if the probability that a poor child gets a millionaire is the same (or reasonably similar) to the son of a wealthy family.

U.S. How do you rate this aspect? Basically fatal. Let's see:


No, the U.S. social mobility is not high. It is indeed pathetically low, much worse than the English. The causes are many and varied, ranging from the education system and welfare state the appalling (and growing ) level of income inequality in American society. What seems obvious is that the "land of opportunity" is really a myth.