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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We never had a class war or socialist movement that actually gained power. People - especially the rich - want to pretend class doesn’t exist or that [b]class mobility isn’t declining rapidly in America[/b].

If people actually begin to recognize class - particularly inherited class - then some people will start to organize to do something about it. [/quote]

Why is the decline of class mobility -- IN AND OF ITSELF -- necessarily a bad thing. I think it's the inevitable conclusion of a society that has successfully eliminated as many barriers as possible. Once you open up the opportunities for higher education to all classes, once you open jobs up to people regardless of race or gender, well then you're going to get a bunch of assortative mating like we're seeing now. A lot of this stuff comes down to the genes we pass on to our kids and their ability to pass the marshmallow test. Class mobility is a zero-sum game. For everyone who moves into the upper quintile, someone has to be kicked out.

It's far more important to focus on steadily improving the material living standards of all classes rather than celebrating one person usurping another at the upper brackets. [/quote]

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