Irelephant@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months agoWhat popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?message-squaremessage-square468fedilinkarrow-up1292arrow-down14
arrow-up1288arrow-down1message-squareWhat popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?Irelephant@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square468fedilink
minus-squareSnapz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoThe idea that you can actually move above your station through the course of your life, when the biggest predictor of wealth/prosperity starts and stops with the zip code you’re born into.
minus-squarehowrar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·5 months agoIt’s still a thing, but it’s a multigenerational process.
Upward mobility
What is that even?
The idea that you can actually move above your station through the course of your life, when the biggest predictor of wealth/prosperity starts and stops with the zip code you’re born into.
It’s still a thing, but it’s a multigenerational process.