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Re:Children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobili... by datashow on Thursday February 06, 2020 @01:19PM (#22258600)
Not really encouraging. You can't make parents more ambitious and effortful.

This is basically saying personal efforts matter. I believe this is not most upward mobility advocators want to hear.

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Re:Children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobili... by leftyted on Thursday February 06, 2020 @01:44PM (#22258894)
It only fails to be encouraging if you're ideologically opposed to the theory that "personal efforts matter".
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Re:Children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobili... by tathougies on Thursday February 06, 2020 @02:24PM (#22259353)
> This is basically saying personal efforts matter. I believe this is not most upward mobility advocators want to hear.

Surely you're not implying that 'upward mobility advocates' mean that people will magically become richer while doing nothing?

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Re:Children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobili... by datashow on Thursday February 06, 2020 @02:26PM (#22259370)
There are people thinking all need to be done is just "fix the system" and then people who were making efforts will be selected.
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Re:Children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobili... by huherto on Thursday February 06, 2020 @01:42PM (#22258871)
It is encouraging because these particular children have upward mobility.
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