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Yeah my mistake I shouldn't have used "rags to riches" since no country has ever had as a statistical point.
No, what I meant which is what you are talking about is "upward mobility" and that is exactly what is going down in America: the plausibility of reaching a higher economical status than the one you were born in to, not necessarily becoming a millionaire.
That was the American Dream, and right now the average American has the same chances of upward mobility than the average citizen of a third world country.
Nothing against you or the person who did that research, but: fuck statistics. Eventually one gets to defy them!
Re:Most people won't
by delluminatus on Friday October 25, 2013 @12:00PM
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Seriously? Fuck statistics?
Its not a lie, its big data crunching the numbers that are out there, and those numbers say if you are poor you are most likely going to end poor, or perhaps dirt poor.