But look where that got us

Nobody stood out there though

And there was one lady Carly Fiorina

Now we have several women and several high status men

Plus Howard Schultz running would probably help

Schultz would severiously dent the political landscape

Do you think it would help GOP win or DEM?

It would definitely hurt the Dems but there’s a chance that if Trump makes a fool of himself that he could snag moderate Repubs too

The only problem is that everybody hates him 😂

Remember that time Congress had a televized lottery for the Vietnam draft?

The US had a ~13% casualty rate.

Let's have a televized lottery for every Congressman's name. 11 names drawn to die, 60 to be wounded

How about no

y not

Congresspeople aren’t the cause of the problem, it’s the system and the people the system represents

(actually, some of it is the congresspeople)

Why not set an example?

Actions have consequences.

I personally believe congressional salaries should be lowered

170k base? endorsements? donations? books? it's too much

not to mention benefits and the fact that their staff are paid separately from their salary

^

Maybe, yeah, plus the whole election process takes an insane amount of time and money which makes them inefficient

Why not just abolish congress?

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full autocrat

@wahx mobility is irrelevant

There’s many other factors that determine this it’s not worth looking at

Such as intervention, mentality

In the us case I would say mentality and social factors

how is it calculated

wjat does it mean

intergeneration earnings are very elastic = bad ?

https://www.businessinsider.com/intergenerational-earnings-elasticity-2013-12

In a society with equal opportunity, a father's income would have no relation to that of his son (a correlation of 0). On the other hand, a country where jobs and income transition from one generation to the next would have a correlation of 1.

i think if it was 0 it would be bad, but if it's 1.0 it's also bad

probably being somewhere in the middle is good

you want to some degree have the success of the father to influence greater opportunities for the son, say, but you also want to give opportunities to other people

there's a balance between these two imo