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.
My solution to the buying drinks problem was to buy the first round then rely on everyone being too drunk to remember anything after that. No one ever knows that I freeload hundreds of pounds worth of drinks. 10/10 would recommend.
Actually one day i just up and mentioned i never buy a round and people still bought me more. I'm a demonic gremlin.