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Re:Why the U.S. Spends So Much More Than Other Nations on He... by danmaz74 on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @07:55AM (#16060569)
> Social mobility is not what "land of opportunity means" it's not meant to be an equal society in the normal sense. It's meant to be a society with opportunities.

Social equality and social mobility are almost opposite ideas. Mobility measures how likely (easy) it is to climb up the ladder, if you're good and/or lucky. Equality measures how steep/long is the ladder - in a totally equal society, there wouldn't be a ladder at all, so there would be zero social mobility.

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Re:Why the U.S. Spends So Much More Than Other Nations on He... by ThomPete on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @08:49AM (#16060900)
Yes and the Denmark isn't doing any better than the US when it comes to that.

Again I refer to the OP who started talking about a selfish US .

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Re:Why the U.S. Spends So Much More Than Other Nations on He... by MaxBarraclough on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @10:28AM (#16061733)
You fail to distinguish equality of opportunity from equality of outcome.
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Re:Why the U.S. Spends So Much More Than Other Nations on He... by danmaz74 on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @04:48PM (#16065539)
I interpreted "equality" from the OP as equality of outcome, it looked pretty clear in that context.
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