Originally Posted by Cherry7

Yes everyone can win the race even the people who have both their legs tied together from birth.

And in a society where the rich are rich because of the millions who work for a minimum poverty wage how is the situation where all win going to be paid for? Who is going to flip the burgers when we all get off our arses and win?

Wages has been falling in the Western Societies since the 80s due to the rich rigging the race. By smashing the power of organised labour.

Social mobility is small and decreasing, but the myth making and disinformation is growing.

MYTH
Belief in strong social and economic mobility—that Americans can and do rise from humble origins to riches—has been called a "civil religion",[3] "the bedrock upon which the American story has been anchored",[4] and part of the American identity (the American Dream

FACT

several large studies have found that vertical inter-generational mobility is lower, not higher, in the US than in those countries.[3] Studies differ on whether social and economic mobility has gotten worse in recent years. A 2013 Brookings Institution study found income inequality was becoming more permanent, sharply reducing social mobility.[8] A large academic study released in 2014 found income mobility has not changed appreciably in the last 20 years

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