Over the last four decades, the financial circumstances into which children have been born have increasingly determined where they have ended up as adults. But an expansive new study, based on billions of social media connections, has uncovered a powerful exception to that pattern that helps explain why certain places offer a path out of poverty.
For poor children, living in an area where people have more friendships that cut across class lines significantly increases how much they earn in adulthood, the new research found.
Finally admitting that it's not the grades you make, it's the hands you shake
Lewis Lapham made a great film called “The American Ruling Class,” the opening scene of which depicts just this.
How is the rest of it, is it worth watching?
Definitely!
As an academic/journalist from a rich family he is a great class traitor. Seems he made this film to really show how economic inequality is the issue, and how pervasive and detrimental American Exceptionalism is.
That clip made me wanna watch it again. Unique in its presentation. Great cameos by Vonnegut, Barbara Erenreich, etc.