garfaagelSocial Mobility in Europe
serIt is sad that it takes so many generations.
I’m interested in why it takes any at all in Scandinavia, since the bottom 10% in Scandinavian countries have the same education and equal opportunity as the top 10%, and social welfare is enough to live on, so kids aren’t forced to work part-time either. School materials and university is free too, so it is not like the bottom 10% cannot afford or don’t have time for education.
warI agree that it is peculiar given that the data is presented as the number of generations "it would take". There is absolutely nothing related to access in Scandinavia (and presumably not in a number of other countries as well) that would prevent someone from the lowest social rung from becoming a top earner as a lawyer, doctor or whatever. I can only assume that the data is mislabeled; it must somehow account for social factors as well, and it must be based on historical data rather than opportunity in the here and now.
Yeah, that makes more sense.