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Tell Us Something We Don't Know, Prof.
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Tell Us Something We Don't Know, Prof.
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014/11/2...can-dream/

Quote:DAVIS (CBS13) — A UC Davis economics professor has determined there is no American Dream.

Gregory Clark is sharing his research as a hard truth with no hope—whether or not you can get ahead in America is as predictable as any formula.

In fact, he says, the formulas for social mobility in the United States show there’s nothing to dream about.

“America has no higher rate of social mobility than medieval England, Or pre-industrial Sweden,” he said. “That’s the most difficult part of talking about social mobility is because it is shattering people s dreams.”
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RE: Tell Us Something We Don't Know, Prof.
You may be fucked, but at least you're still part of the greatest nation on earth. It's trickle-down glamour, I saw it in a Roland Emmerich movie.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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RE: Tell Us Something We Don't Know, Prof.
The whole country is trickling down...like piss running down a wall.
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RE: Tell Us Something We Don't Know, Prof.
Yeah, trickling down. Like a healthy load of diarrhea does. With the same effects, if you're the one on the receiving end.
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Quote:“The status of your children, your grandchildren, your great grandchildren your great-great grandchildren will be quite closely related to your average status now,” he said.

That is just depressing.
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RE: Tell Us Something We Don't Know, Prof.
Oh yeah? How does he explain Justin Beiber, then????
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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RE: Tell Us Something We Don't Know, Prof.
He Canadian, yo.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Tell Us Something We Don't Know, Prof.
(December 2, 2014 at 2:15 pm)Tonus Wrote: Oh yeah? How does he explain Justin Beiber, then????

A talentless little girl who other girls have wet dreams about.

Perfectly acceptable in an age where gay rights are being promoted.
Dying to live, living to die.
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RE: Tell Us Something We Don't Know, Prof.
(December 2, 2014 at 2:15 pm)Tonus Wrote: Oh yeah? How does he explain Justin Beiber, then????

Canadian. And obnoxious brat, barfing shitty music. Sure recipe to become a success.
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RE: Tell Us Something We Don't Know, Prof.
I'm too old to be disillusioned.

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