According to some studies, two-thirds of American kids born in the 'top 5%' stay there. One-in-twenty American kids born into the 'bottom 5%' ever get out. More information about mobility between the middle percentiles is necessary, but prima facie, these findings suggest one of two things:
66% of all the wealthiest people's kids are highly motivated fucking geniuses (because money is the reward for implemented ability, right?)
and
95% of the poor people's kids are completely useless retards
or
there is an institutionalized, systemic and enduring range of opportunity gaps between rich kids and poor kids, i.e. not enough social mobility, in the USA - a caste system, basically.
Which do we reckon is more likely?
You can dangle a carrot in front of a horse until the cows come home but if its legs have been amputated you will not effectively motivate it to pursue it.
66% of all the wealthiest people's kids are highly motivated fucking geniuses (because money is the reward for implemented ability, right?)
and
95% of the poor people's kids are completely useless retards
or
there is an institutionalized, systemic and enduring range of opportunity gaps between rich kids and poor kids, i.e. not enough social mobility, in the USA - a caste system, basically.
Which do we reckon is more likely?
You can dangle a carrot in front of a horse until the cows come home but if its legs have been amputated you will not effectively motivate it to pursue it.
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