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Originally Posted by gunner  Succa you need to get over your obsession with the middle classes its blurring your obvious talent in economics. |
You don't think we're still class ridden?
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In life i feel the only boundaries are those that you allow to be "a boundary" If you have the dedication to work hard there's nothing [within reason] that you cannot achieve.
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How do you account for the increase in graduate unemployment? Is it perhaps that demand-side constraints (which are beyond the individual's control) effectively make the usual supply-side stories insufficient?
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So i don't buy into this born into poverty bull**** as a restriction on income and social mobility.
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Whilst I thank you for your personal example, it isn't sufficient to discount the point. I'm from working class oik background myself and have achieved a self-employment level that I'd have spat on as a more naive whipper-snapper "I wannabe Citizen Wolfie Smith". Its the lack of overall upward mobility that is the problem, with evidence to discount innate ability is able to sufficiently break through the intergenerational divides generated by wealth