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Ok, so they can track me. I don't really give a fuck? It's not the end of the world.

As for all the 'efforts', expanding opportunities and improving social mobility is pretty nebulous, as are 'improving access to social services and community'. Essentially it seems like you've written a screed for the lower class, but I think neither of us qualify as being part of it. So are you talking about the educated middle class and up, or the lower class. If the middle class, social mobility and opportunities are fine; if the lower class, then the sociological research shows that they are almost invariably a lost cause anyway, unless you want to talk about forced sterilisation which would ironically be a great way to help the lower class expand their opportunities, at least in the nearer term, as well as improve society generally. But that'd probably be too offensive, right?

And just as an aside: pretty funny that most of the protestors these days are middle class themselves. Their being middle class is what enables them to protest lol. A bit ironic. Perhaps to that extent they've been provided with TOO MANY opportunities.



There is little difference between any people except opportunity availability.

Wealthier people should advocate for less fortunate peers. It’s the right thing to do.

There are plenty of countries with much better social mobility than the US. We need only adopt what’s been shown to work.

Your rhetoric is concerning. It seems you don’t consider poor people as worthy as yourself of social support, or that poor people are somehow different from you. You are simply relatively lucky. , as am I. The difference seems that I acknowledge luck


> There is little difference between any people except opportunity availability.

Are you suggesting that genetics don’t overwhelmingly determine a person’s intelligence and personality?

I take it as uncontroversial that intelligence is a sine qua non of taking advantage of opportunities, but you may also disagree about that.




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