"...someone who is poor in Scotland can become rich..."
Five minutes of casual googling didn't yield Scotland's current measure of social mobility. The Great Gatsby Curve is a rule of thumb suggesting that inequity & mobility are strongly correlated. Further, the members of the commission responsible for the Elite Scotland report (meant to update the measurements) all resigned in protest, which is probably a bad sign.
Inequity is math.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient
"...someone who is poor in Scotland can become rich..."
Five minutes of casual googling didn't yield Scotland's current measure of social mobility. The Great Gatsby Curve is a rule of thumb suggesting that inequity & mobility are strongly correlated. Further, the members of the commission responsible for the Elite Scotland report (meant to update the measurements) all resigned in protest, which is probably a bad sign.
"(I am not even sure what [clearings] means...)"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances