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The 'Fairness' Fraud
Jewish World Review ^ | 2-25-14 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 02/24/2014 9:35:27 PM PST by ReformationFan

It seems as if, everywhere you turn these days, there are studies claiming to show that America has lost its upward mobility for people born in the lower socioeconomic levels. But there is a sharp difference between upward "mobility," defined as an opportunity to rise, and mobility defined as actually having risen.

That distinction is seldom even mentioned in most of the studies. It is as if everybody is chomping at the bit to get ahead, and the ones that don't rise have been stopped by "barriers" created by "society."

When statistics show that sons of high school dropouts don't become doctors or scientists nearly as often as the sons of Ph.D.s, that is taken as a sign that American society is not "fair."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: engineering; fairness; sowell; thomassowell; upwardmobility

1 posted on 02/24/2014 9:35:27 PM PST by ReformationFan
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To: ReformationFan

but of course any politician who wants to do something about it is called names and the establishment status quo is defended


2 posted on 02/24/2014 9:39:20 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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