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Re:The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U... by chmod600 on Monday October 18, 2021 @01:27PM (#28908066)
The Forbes article study is a bit too creative to apply to this discussion:

"Rather than using the more traditional metric of income, this study uses educational attainment as the basis for defining upward mobility."

The Atlantic article seems like more of the same: comparing brackets and ignoring mobility.

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Re:The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U... by thinkcontext on Monday October 18, 2021 @02:07PM (#28908842)
Then you must be distressed that mobility has been decreasing in the US and that we now lag substantially behind many of our European peers on that measure.
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