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Re:I worked in an Amazon warehouse. Bernie Sanders is right ... by tengbretson on Monday September 17, 2018 @11:45AM (#18006985)
If you care to read it, your article doesn't refute anything about what I said.

> An American born to a household in the bottom 20% of earnings, for instance, only has a 7.8% chance of reaching the top 20% when they grow up.

Again, this article is about intra-generational mobility. The American Dream is about inter-generational mobility.

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Re:I worked in an Amazon warehouse. Bernie Sanders is right ... by prolikewh0a on Monday September 17, 2018 @11:47AM (#18007001)
It shows that your idea of the 'American Dream' is nearly completely dead and a thing of history. The 'American' Dream exists in other first world countries far more than it does here.

If you need another source that social mobility is 'poor' in the USA [1]

[1] http://www.poverty.ac.uk/report-usa-inequality-social-mobili...

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Re:I worked in an Amazon warehouse. Bernie Sanders is right ... by majewsky on Monday September 17, 2018 @12:26PM (#18007351)
> The American Dream is about inter-generational mobility.

You're making that claim without any evidence to back it up.

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