It
seems as if everywhere you turn these days there are studies claiming to show
that America has lost its upward mobility for people born in the lower
socioeconomic levels. But there is a sharp difference between upward
“mobility,” defined as an opportunity to rise, and mobility defined as actually
having risen. That distinction is seldom
even mentioned in most of the studies. It is as if everybody is chomping at the
bit to get ahead, and the ones that don’t rise have been stopped by “barriers”
created by “society.” When statistics show that sons of high school dropouts
don’t become doctors or scientists nearly as often as the sons of Ph.D.s, that
is taken as a sign that American society is not “fair.”
If
equal probabilities of achieving some goal is your definition of fairness, then
we should all get together – people of every race, color, creed, national
origin, political ideology and sexual preference – and stipulate that life has
never been fair, anywhere or any time in all the millennia of recorded history.
Then
we can begin at last to talk sense.....To Read More....
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