The wealth of a country doesn't necessarily relate to income mobility.

@Louis Carlos Fer they are using a pretty sophisticated measure which is percent of variance inherited across and within families

but hang on a sec

Say we have two countries, Egalitaria and Ancapistan. Both have their incomes divided into quartiles:

Egalitaria: Q1 $0 - $20,000, Q2 $20,001 - $55,000, Q3 $55,001 - $120,000, Q4 $120,001+
Ancapistan: Q1 $0 - $30,000, Q2 $30,001 - $100,000, Q3 $100,001 - $400,000, Q4 $400,000+

In Egalitaria a person could go from 'low income' to 'medium income' by jumping from $12k to $24k, whereas in Ancapistan, both of those incomes are still in Q1, because the spread of incomes is much larger, and so the categories are larger as well--but in either country, their income and material standard of living would still have doubled.

Presumably being in Ancapistan makes gaining $12k in income easier than it would be in Egalitaria.

easier isn't the right word.

I should say "more likely"

Otherwise Ancapistan wouldn't have a greater wealth spread.

Perhaps. That would have to be compiled from data on historical economic mobility. 😉

hard to come by in fictional countries

The whole point is to compare mobility.

It is possible that a nation with a higher wealth spread has lower absolute mobility but I think those charts generally chart relative mobility.

Certainly possible in a more rigid class-based society.

I'm not throwing shade on that study btw, so far it seems to be pretty rigorous.

@Fondboy I'm in AEST. It's currently 1640 here

So pick a time after 2200 my time, preferably on the weekend but whenever. Let's have a chat

I still don't see why that can't happen here

My money is now on fondboy having a discord-debate-ASMR fetish. Must be why he always asks for voice and records people

We're constantly blue-balling him with all this text debate

lol

it's a terrible format since every time he;s been in voice there are like 3 people trying to get a word in edgewise

we prolly all sound like idiots

maybe that is his purpose

I mean

I admire his bravery violating multiple state's laws

not really, not if he lives in a country/state, where there is only 1 party consent

yeah but a number of us live in 2 party consent states

such as myself

since he is recording in a location like that, those laws don't apply

I'm not sure that's how that works

plus we all know youtube doesn't use the law as their measuring stick anyway

So it's legal for him to record you, but you can't record him?

^

pretty much, from what i understand from the whole law issue, since where are you going to sue him?

in your state?

lol

or in his state?

no

suing him would be a profound waste of time

I'm pretty sure the only wiretapping law that applies is the one of the state where the one doing the recording is.

2 party consent states are fucking lame anyway.