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Re:Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh [pdf] by enriquec on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @08:16AM (#25569460)
In every instance I've seen, redistribution does limit mobility - as well as introduces a middleman (the redistributors that steal/war/lie/oppress), corruption, politics, and extreme inefficiencies. You keep harping on the US, but it is one of - if not the most - upwardly mobile societies in history. One of my favorite anecdotes is how the 'unclassy american tourist' is a product of us being the first society to afford sending our middle/lower-class abroad for fun. And I'm proud of that.
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Re:Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh [pdf] by anemoiac on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @07:49PM (#25577009)
> In every instance I've seen, redistribution does limit mobility

> You keep harping on the US, but it is one of - if not the most - upwardly mobile societies in history.

The data doesn't support your conclusions. The US has lower social mobility than many of its (more redistributive) peers in the developed world. [1]

1 - https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-social-mobility-index...

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Re:Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh [pdf] by dragonwriter on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @05:04PM (#25575604)
> In every instance I've seen, redistribution does limit mobility

Please enumerate these instances and support the claim that in each of them mobility is reduced due to redistribution.

Without that, this sounds like subjective impression shaped by ideological preference being presented as if it were evidence for the ideological preference that produced it.

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Re:Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh [pdf] by jahaja on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @10:16AM (#25570468)
> In every instance I've seen, redistribution does limit mobility

Much of Western-Europe show you otherwise, I'm not sure how you could have missed that?

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Re:Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh [pdf] by enriquec on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @03:48PM (#25574784)
No it doesn't. It validates exactly what I said. Not sure how you could have missed that.
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Re:Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh [pdf] by jahaja on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @04:58PM (#25575555)
I have certainly missed how for example Scandinavian countries fits with this:

> In every instance I've seen, redistribution does limit mobility - as well as introduces a middleman (the redistributors that steal/war/lie/oppress), corruption, politics, and extreme inefficiencies.

Care to explain? Or are you just being childishly contrarian which your last sentence seem to suggest?

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