TechShop shuts down all U.S. locations, declares bankruptcy

Re:TechShop shuts down all U.S. locations, declares bankruptcy by doikor on Friday November 17, 2017 @04:44PM (#15726235)

> Europeans tend to view issues through a classist lens. That society is split up into the workers, and the capitalists, and that your ranking in the social hierarchy is solidified.

And yet social mobility between the classes (they exist in the US too even though you don't necessarily think in terms of them) in many European countries is better then in the US. Especially the nordic countries. Pretty much the only EU countries doing worse then US are UK and Italy and the difference between US and UK is much smaller then US and Finland for example.

Maybe we Europeans are a bit pessimistic when it comes to our economic futures but in terms of the chance of making from poor to rich (or vice versa) in many places we are doing better then the US.

https://inequality.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/Pathways...

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Re:TechShop shuts down all U.S. locations, declares bankruptcy by smokeyj on Saturday November 18, 2017 @11:11AM (#15729525)

There's some truth here but it seems we're comparing apples to oranges considering Finland is the size of a US city. I wonder how a top US city compares to Finland for example, or the EU as a whole compares to the US in class mobility.

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