Over the last four decades, the financial circumstances into which children have been born have increasingly determined where they have ended up as adults. But an expansive new study, based on billions of social media connections, has uncovered a powerful exception to that pattern that helps explain why certain places offer a path out of poverty.
For poor children, living in an area where people have more friendships that cut across class lines significantly increases how much they earn in adulthood, the new research found.
Finally admitting that it’s not the grades you make, it’s the hands you shake
Lewis Lapham made a great film called “The American Ruling Class,” the opening scene of which depicts just this.
Definitely!
As an academic/journalist from a rich family he is a great class traitor. Seems he made this film to really show how economic inequality is the issue, and how pervasive and detrimental American Exceptionalism is.
That clip made me wanna watch it again. Unique in its presentation. Great cameos by Vonnegut, Barbara Erenreich, etc.
The liberal utopia is one where brutal social hierarchy exists, but one’s position on that hierarchy is determined by educational attainment rather than genetics and family name
It’s funny when the thing that is not even achievable is also not good.
Collecting $10M to write a report entitled “Its nice to have rich friends”.
There’s a big market for extremely obvious studies : “High cost of housing drives up homeless rates, UCLA study indicates”
sociology is just doing the math that proves liberals are wrong, over and over and over
I have a friend who works in public health and she complains that all of her papers are essentially reruns of ones published twenty years ago with recommendations that have never been acted upon.
I want to see more studies about nepotism in the hiring process.
Well then, perhaps we should start a list of names and addresses? Maybe go to door to door and make new friends?
Rich people have to sleep somewhere. Let’s find them and very agressively be friends with them.
