Message from @Perpetual Moral Imbalance
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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
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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
an actual economist >paul krugman studied this
the US has high income inequality
because shit social mobility
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
You have huge welfare cliffs