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More equale countries with higher taxes like my country Sweden, have more social mobility
That depends on whether you are measuring in a zero sum fashion or not. It's not so much that America has less social mobility, it's that our high performers earn way more, and so our top brackets are far higher. We also have more freedom of movement.
so you instead could say that countries like USA with lower taxes forestall competition by making it harder for children with low income to succeed.
....no, you couldn't. There is no connection between my uncle's tax rates and my kids' performance in school.
That at the same time Sweden have a lot of sucessfull companies from old ones like Volvo and H & M to new tech company like Skype who Microsoft bought, Minecraft and Spotify, so we also do pretty well on the global market.
Sure, Sweden's done well with a few items.