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Old 07-05-08, 03:58 AM   #164 (permalink)
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Thread Starter Re: Do Immigrants Work Harder?

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Originally Posted by Scucca View Post
Nope. Compensation according to supply/demand criteria would lead to a substantial narrowing of wage differentials


Education is used to stunt social mobility. Indeed, orthodox economics predicts such a result if there are any differences in household wealth.
I’ve thought about your arguments that you have presented about social mobility and then researched the model countries of social mobility namely: Norway, Finland, Sweden etc. and almost packed by bags catching a red eye to Oslo, but then researched a little more finding articles such as the one below with the common sense perspective that Americans make more money, we aren’t taxed as heavily and we pay less for goods and services than those in the EU according to the source below. Then I thought about it and said, so what? We still do not compare to Norway as far as social mobility because Norway on the graph is dwarfing the US as far as social mobility, but then thought about Norway’s population of 4-5 million and realized that New York City, or Chicago, L.A. etc. with populations double that of Norway probably have twice as much social mobility as the entire country of Norway. It depends on where you live etc. I then put my feet up and stopped looking for air rates to the EU.

Classically Liberal: The EU vs the US: Who is Economically Better Off?

The next endeavor was to show proof of social mobility in the US which appear that a meritocracy still exists and not just some social mobility but a lot of mobility. I was amazed to learn that Asian Americans per household have the highest income? WHAT? Are you joking, not white anglo euro Americans? How? You probably think it’s luck, because we are all powerless right? But an entire ethnic group? Why are Asians earning more than us white folk?
How do you explain that?

See source as follows.
Household income in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I standby my assertion that if we follow the immigrant example, go to school, work hard, we still have the same capability to be socially mobile as ever. You differ in your argument here, but what is the alternative? In other words is the Norway model the ideal here? Would that suffice and make you happy?
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