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Re:Share of U.S. workers holding multiple jobs is rising by mjfl on Thursday February 18, 2021 @05:57PM (#26187012)
Well, that GDP growth technically means you have a better opportunity to trade up in the USA than anywhere else in the world, if you apply yourself, get yourself trained, etc. you want to make people believe that these career choices are impossible to escape and they really aren’t.
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Re:Share of U.S. workers holding multiple jobs is rising by DangitBobby on Thursday February 18, 2021 @06:46PM (#26187477)
> than in anywhere else the world

This is definitely not true.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socioeconomic_mobility_in_th...

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Re:Share of U.S. workers holding multiple jobs is rising by mjfl on Thursday February 18, 2021 @07:47PM (#26188015)
It certainly is true, but academics who want to conduct sophistry can use the metric that gives them the answers they want. Comparing USA to Denmark using in-country income percentiles gives Denmark a much lower bar to hop over for this BS "social-mobility" as defined in the article.
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Re:Share of U.S. workers holding multiple jobs is rising by DangitBobby on Thursday February 18, 2021 @10:13PM (#26189176)
You can also use whatever metrics you want, and you haven't even gone to the effort of defining them!
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Re:Share of U.S. workers holding multiple jobs is rising by mjfl on Friday February 19, 2021 @01:17AM (#26190305)
Here's one: use USA percentiles for both countries. Or use Denmark percentiles for both. Only when you use a high bar for US and low bar for Denmark do they come out on top.
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