Clyburn busts slavery myth

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(02-24-2020, 10:09 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I'd like to see the underlying data to those figures. How much money were their parents' making? How much were they worth? How much is the spouse and their family worth? Did this bump come from marriage? Were these long term gains or short term? Was it inherited? Lots of questions to ask about that.

I'd be willing to put money on it that less than 10% of those figures were actually examples of socioeconomic mobility.

https://nypost.com/2019/03/14/the-us-has-more-millionaires-than-greece-has-people/
This is the main source I used, sorry for not including it in my post. For a moment there, I almost forgot that there were Dbag emoji trolls lurking on the board who can't wait until after 7:30am for people to get on and correct the mistake before they absolutely have to be dicks.
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Even if all of your assumed numbers are correct, 10% is still over 60 people per day. Enough to make your use of the word "impossible" rather inaccurate. 

My post was never to make it seem like I was saying having money doesn't make it easier to make money, and that parents of wealthy people don't have an advantage. They do.

I just had a problem with you using the term "impossible" because it makes it sound like no matter what anyone does they are stuck, and any failure to rise above the level you were born as isn't ever their fault, but merely the system that made it "impossible", and that's just no good to perpetuate.

(02-25-2020, 09:39 AM)GMDino Wrote: Also...that was before anything the current admin could have done to cause the effect. 

You might want to do something about that bad case of Trump On The Brain you have there. 

I never once mentioned this administration having anything to do with the numbers I was saying. It has nothing to do with Trump, Obama, Bush, or any other President. It's our country.