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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Where is all the innovation?

Let's ask the Global Innovation Index, shall we?

1.  Switzerland
2.  Sweden
3.  United States of America

https://www.globalinnovationindex.org/userfiles/file/reportpdf/GII-2021/GII_at_a_glance.pdf[/quote]

What a joke.  Now do patents, quantities of publications in top end journals, etc.  Name 3 things from Switzeland and Sweden each that have had trillion dollar impacts on the global economy.   The crappy index you cite doesn't even consider the actual quality of innovations being churned out and their overall economic impacts.  [/quote]

I don't know what to tell you.   You reject every piece of evidence that contradicts your position so it's not an honest argument. [/quote]

Switzerland and Sweden are such innovative powerhouses that any person on the street could name 3 things off the top of their heads from those countries that have changed their lives.....not.  Have you even looked at the methodology in the index?  What a joke.  Factors such as:

“Ease of Paying Taxes“, “Electricity Output“ (half-weightage) and “Ease of Protecting Minority Investors” are factors alongside “Ease of Getting Credit” and “Venture Capital Deals“[/quote]

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