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A comment on In America, Where You're Born Is Correlated With How Far You'll Go In Life. Parent comment

Re:In America, Where You're Born Is Correlated With How Far ... by untog on Monday July 22, 2013 @12:36PM (#6084804)
I knew people who turned down full tuition scholarships to the flagship state university because they wanted to follow God and marry a nice boy from their church, or needed to stay home to help care and provide for members of their family.

Thing is, my success is not your success is not their success. If they lead happy and fulfilled lives in that way, is it wrong?

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Re:In America, Where You're Born Is Correlated With How Far ... by jurassic on Monday July 22, 2013 @12:39PM (#6084826)
I get that, and I accept it. I'm just trying to explain my perspective on why people in these communities are unlikely to have much intergenerational mobility of the kind discussed in the article.
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