The 'glass floor' keeps the children of the rich at the top

Re:The 'glass floor' keeps the children of the rich at the top by throwaway2048 on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @12:41PM (#21260469)

Its a fine ideal, but plenty of people that massively benefit from the myth that it exists and is the primary way that people "get ahead" in the world, get very angry when you question that fact.

Because its not, and the absurd shell games that get played to pretend it is are extremely harmful to society as a whole.

You are making a straw man argument that I am "winging" that one person is disadvantaged, therefore the entire system is flawed. That is not the argument I am making.

The argument I am making is in fact a majority of the population (Black, white, or otherwise) is greatly harmed by the myth that the American economic system greatly rewards "merit", how many poor white rural people become CEOs?

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Re:The 'glass floor' keeps the children of the rich at the top by tomp on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @12:57PM (#21260726)

> myth that the American economic system greatly rewards "merit", how many poor white rural people become CEOs?

Um... does anyone actually believe that “myth”? Last American election was a trust fund kid vs wife of former president... so anyone who still thinks it’s “all meritocracy 100% of the time” is beyond stupid.

But that doesn’t make it a bad ideal. In fact, I’d say that, if anything, that would be an argument that we need more meritocracy (again, just like equality and freedom).

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Re:The 'glass floor' keeps the children of the rich at the top by throwaway2048 on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @01:20PM (#21261057)

We completely agree about that, the problem is that people pretend its already the case, when its so obviously, clearly not.

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