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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look at the components of the social mobility index.  It is very heavily weighted towards social safety net provisions.  I see very few components on the list that would correspond with what most in the US would associate with opportunities to be socially mobile.[/quote]

If the #1 predictor of social mobility is education, then free or lower cost university education has quite a bit to do with social mobility.[/quote]

Again, if Europe has so much access to university education, then where is all the innovation out of countries like Denmark, Netherlands, etc.  Where were they to invent vaccines that saved the planet from COVID?  Once again, the technology used to save the world on its knees was fundamentally based on American technology and scientific discovery.[/quote]

I see you are under the impression that America was the first country to develop a COVID vaccine?

It wasn't.[/quote]

Bullcrap.  Please go ahead and claim it was Germany and BioNTech.  That is complete revisionist history from Europeans.  Newsflash: Americans did ALL of the heavy lifting for BioNTech.  The fundamental scientific discoveries that even allowed mRNA technology to work are due to methyl pseudo uridine substitution into mRNA.  All of those discoveries were conducted at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Pennsylvania.  BioNTech had to license technology from UPenn to develop COVID vax.  All BioNTech did was change out a sequence to target COVID. That is easy.  The hard part was derisking the entire technology in the first place and discovering how to get the technology to work in cells in the first place.  The latter was entirely funded by the US govt and was discovered at American institutions.  If there are any Nobel Prizes, they will go to U Wisconsin and U Penn for the work. [/quote]

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