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Re:The American Dream Is Alive in Finland by klipt on Monday July 11, 2016 @06:23PM (#12075263)
But these percentiles are a zero sum game (the distribution of percentiles is always uniform 0-100).

Which makes me wonder why one would laud upward mobility in percentiles, when any such upward mobility must be balanced out by equal and opposite downward mobility.

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Re:The American Dream Is Alive in Finland by drabiega on Monday July 11, 2016 @06:41PM (#12075375)
Because the lack of downward mobility suggests the same problem as the upward mobility: your success in life is based on your parents income not your own merits.

If you want a meritocracy you have to accept that untalented/unmotivated kids of rich parents may become relatively poor.

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Re:The American Dream Is Alive in Finland by klipt on Monday July 11, 2016 @07:46PM (#12075669)
Well if you really want to optimize for social churn, couldn't you just randomize all the newborn babies at hospitals or something?
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Re:The American Dream Is Alive in Finland by drjesusphd on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @02:42AM (#12077172)
This has nothing to do with genetics.
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