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I wasn't suggesting anything with my original post, merely stating a hypothesis about how the world is. It's possible to have a fact without a value judgment.

...but now that you ask, yes, I do think this is a good thing. It strikes me as a ridiculous injustice that the biggest single determinant of your lifetime income is the geographic location of your birth. Anything that makes that less arbitrary and more under your control will lead to a more just world, in my book.

Yes, that means that the economic system is chaotic at present and some people are getting left behind. However, it's far easier to pick up the skills needed to survive in today's economy than it was to move to the U.S. and get American citizenship in past generations.



In America social mobility is declining. Just another fact for this thread




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