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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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