Can't wait until my mate, my job, my life, and my position in society is decided before I am even born :)
Yay!
Yay!
My job, life and other attributes couldn't have been predicted by salary nor any other vanity metric.
GP's point, as far as I understand, wasn't that it's impossible to move up the social ladder, just that it doesn't happen for most people.
Is there data showing that?
It's not so easy to find a good compiled list by country but here s a start (see especially the chart at the bottom): http://www.verisi.com/resources/prosperity-upward-mobility.h...
If you're parents where educated and well off, you'll most likely be aswell, same if your parents are poor and uneducated.