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Originally Posted by RightinNYC  One point that hasn't been addressed here - why do you assume that changes in intergenerational social strata are automatically good? |
The clue is in Adam Smith's quote:
"The differences of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions so much the cause as the effect of the division of labour. The differences between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom and education."
And what do we have with Britain? Additional investment in education that has actually widened the income divides. That suggests that pishpot middle class divs are more able to pick the peanuts out of certification, rather than the more cunning but wealth-hampered working class sweetpeas (Note I dumbed my language down for Utah!). Mach then is correct in that the solution is pre-tertiary education sector.