02-25-2020, 09:13 PM
(02-25-2020, 04:37 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: There's a big difference between say ~20th (which I still question) and 195th.
You said it was harder than almost anywhere else on the planet. Now we have agreed that the US is automatically better than roughly 175 countries out of 195.
So the US just went from the 1st percentile to at least ~90th percentile without having to even touch on any of the details of how the top 20 or so countries are ordered. Yet somehow you're still trying to make it seem like I am wrong for calling you out on saying the US is the harder than "almost anywhere else on the planet".
Yeah, we're not at the bottom, and even the UK tends to rank worse than us in the OECD countries. Sometimes Italy, too, but we're third up.
I also freely admit to being intentionally hyperbolic. I will still say, though, that the article you're using to refute me truly doesn't as there is no indication there was any mobility occurring there. Yeah, mobility can still happen, but this isn't the land of opportunity people think it is.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
