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Yeah my mistake I shouldn't have used "rags to riches" since no country has ever had as a statistical point.

No, what I meant which is what you are talking about is "upward mobility" and that is exactly what is going down in America: the plausibility of reaching a higher economical status than the one you were born in to, not necessarily becoming a millionaire.

That was the American Dream, and right now the average American has the same chances of upward mobility than the average citizen of a third world country.




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