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Actually - the whole idea of social mobility is bullshit. Even after 200 years of "democratic reforms", the basic foundation of society is still very much the same. It's a nice lie that both the Left ("look at what we have done for you - we have lifted people out of the lower class") and the Right ("pull yourselves up by your bootstraps") have been telling us in order to make sure that we're not going to start chopping off heads today (not that it would help much) and mind you: capitalism or communism ? It doesn't make any difference at all: the same creeps in the bureaucratic classes who ran Czarist Russia or Imperial China, ran the USSR or Maoist China and the very same creeps still run it today. Be it China, Russia, Cuba, Sweden or the United States: it doesn't matter a damn - the same names of who those who were the lawyers and officials back in the old days, are still the lawyers and officials today.
In Dutch we have an expression that sums it up: "he that was born for 10 cents will never earn a quarter." (wie voor een dubbeltje geboren is, wordt nooit een kwartje).
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