if you don't put in the effort to do a good job frankly you don't deserve your payment

it never has been

the first condition for a meritocracy is everyone starting from the same baseline which is incredibly false about the global capitalist world.

it's incredibly false for even a 'western' nation

it is however *not hard* to rise above from poverty in the US

assuming you know what you're doing

^

could easily work for say, a year or two saving up cash

then use said savings to go to something as simple as trade school

yes because people working multiple jobs aren't 'working hard enough' and are 'lazy'.

just like that you have access to a job that gives decent pay

Save money for trade school

no, people working multiple jobs clearly *don't* know what they're doing

Which isn’t *super* expensive

yes because the US doesn't have the lowest or one of the lowest social mobility ratings of any OECD country

if they knew what they were doing they would've gotten schooling and had a better *singular* job

this doesn't change that it's actually really easy to get a good job

https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/the-great-gatsby-curve/

an actual economist >paul krugman studied this

the US has high income inequality

because shit social mobility

and i disagree, it's actually really easy to acquire a good job

work a "low-tier" (if you'd call it that) job for a couple or more years saving cash for trade school

then *attend* trade school

then use your trade school education to get a good job

"I disagree"

**disagreeing against clear statistics**

provide counter-statistics

if you call a blog from 2012 statistics

*sure*

yes because income inequality sudden radically change in 6 years

oh wait it hasn't for the people outside the 1%

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are you saying it's not easy to get a job?
>work 1-3 years
>save as much money as can from said working
>attend trade school

well you argued it was 'easy' to get out of poverty in the US
I countered with statistics

compared to say Norway

it's incredibly hard to get out of poverty in the US

i argue it's easy to get a well-paying job which could place you to the middle class

hence the incredible income inequality of the US

Its been like since the 70s that wages have barely moved

You'd almost think the programs employed to help impoverished people encourages the move