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Re:Flock CEO calls Deflock a "terrorist organization" [video... by margalabargala on Thursday February 05, 2026 @06:19PM (#46906833)
In the 1300s you could be broke but if you had the blue blood you still had power.

People today can become wealthy, and wealthy people can lose wealth, much much easily than nobility was created or revoked under feudalism.

There's objectively more social mobility. That's an improvement. Don't confuse "it's an improvement" with "it's an acceptable and desirable end state".

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Re:Flock CEO calls Deflock a "terrorist organization" [video... by keybored on Thursday February 05, 2026 @06:33PM (#46906989)
I don’t know. For some reason when I think of social mobillity I think of Genghis Khan.
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Re:Flock CEO calls Deflock a "terrorist organization" [video... by margalabargala on Thursday February 05, 2026 @07:33PM (#46907488)
Exactly. He's notable because he was so unusual.

How many people in the US have been born into a lower to middle class family, and gone on to make more than $10 million in the last 30 years?

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Re:Flock CEO calls Deflock a "terrorist organization" [video... by ted_dunning on Thursday February 05, 2026 @09:54PM (#46908463)
Well, off hand, Bill Clinton, Obama and JD Vance all fit this rubric.

There are likely to be many other examples. These are just well known ones.

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Re:Flock CEO calls Deflock a "terrorist organization" [video... by margalabargala on Friday February 06, 2026 @01:24AM (#46909746)
Yes, my point is there are tons of them. Not just White House residents, but tons of people who own random businesses all over the country.
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Re:Flock CEO calls Deflock a "terrorist organization" [video... by keybored on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @05:38PM (#47067408)
From rags to the Lolita Express.
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Re:Flock CEO calls Deflock a "terrorist organization" [video... by keybored on Friday February 06, 2026 @03:46AM (#46910512)
> Exactly. He's notable because he was so unusual.

Now I have been taken to communicate that Genghis Khan with his KPI of human ears was an example of positive social mobility.

This is peak move fast across the steppe and break things mindset.

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