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 No.69555

why are states with more economicaclly unequal population having lower social mobility?

 No.69559

>>69555

Honestly, I think an answer to this question would not be meaningful.

Economic inequality is not inherently harmful. It only becomes an evil if the inequality is either caused by redistributionist policies or privileges (in the true sense of that term). Also if riches bring other privileges that don't have to be paid for, like better, subsidized education. In all other cases, there is nothing wrong with inequality, and there is no reason why anyone should feel obliged to apologize for it.

Likewise, how much social mobility there is doesn't say much about the state of society. Higher mobility isn't better at all when it is caused by redistributionist policies. It isn't bad either when no one leaves his place in society when that place is earned (which is a hypothetical situation). Instead of asking about the "total" social mobility, we should ask if there are artificial restraints on whatever social mobility the society already has.

Economic inequality and lower social mobility, then, is a severe problem in an authoritarian dictatorship, as it indicates that there is a class of leeches that keeps everyone else down. In a free society, neither of these things are a problem, and we shouldn't waste too much time justifying them.


 No.69575

>>69555

We would first have to establish how the two are dependent and what are the economic conditions of the alleged social mobility.

Just like it, unemployment is near irrelevant in a rich society when people can simply afford to not work for extended periods of time or not at all. Or "full employment" under Communism where the majority lives in poverty, but everyone has a nominal job.


 No.69650

>>69559

how and why would state subsidize social mobility? paying the poor money from taxes?




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