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well it depends who you tell >_> if you tell someone who has to do that ^^ then ofcourse it is bad, but tell someone who is tremendously well off, then ofcourse the answer will be different.

but if we can barely control privatized healthcare how do we expect not to see horrible corruption in public?

Assuming you're not underemployed, you make 175 a week after taxes here. That's being heavily taxed under minimum wage. (30 hrs/week * 7.25 = 215, minus 15% tax = 185).
If you're going to use numbers, don't make them up, thankya.
So no, absolutely no employed workers with a check-issuing job makes less than 100/week here.

Not in the sense of all jobs other than construction and services being office jobs. That's completely different.

Ten years ago, if you didn't know how to work modern technology you had little to no problem finding a job. We're talking about how lower class people aren't gaining enough social mobility nowadays because they don't have the qualifications for tertiary jobs.

I'm talking about how in the long run, when more of them notice this/are further convinced of this, there will be higher demand for technology education and therefore more technology education, and more of them will be able to go into those jobs and (probably) have more social mobility. Moreover, I'm talking about how they could do that right now in anticipation of and have better social mobility.

Force people to go to school? That would hardly ever pass Congress.

well it depends who you tell >_> if you tell someone who has to do that ^^ then ofcourse it is bad, but tell someone who is tremendously well off, then ofcourse the answer will be different.

Right, and since 85% of people aren't in poverty, definitely more than that can pay both food and medicine (probably 95%), so 1 out of every 20 people you see would agree it's not that bad.

Friendly advice, back up your claims, it may make me more inclined to believe you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mob ⦠_workforce

This shows that now more than ever in the past century in the US, you are more likely to die poor if you are born poor. Even in the early 60s part of the golden age of the 'american dream' the vast majority of people never moved social class.

Check the links at the bottom if you dont believe them. Those are where wik get their information - peer reviewed studies:

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References

1. ^ Data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). (2006). Institute for Social Science Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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3. ^ Kerbo, Harold. "Social Stratification and Inequality" (1996) pg 331-332 ISBN 0-07-034258
4. ^ [1] Jacobs, Sheila. "Trends in Women's Career Patterns and in Gender Occupational Mobility in Britain." Gender, Work, & Organization 6 (1999): 32-46. InterScience. Wiley. 19 Nov. 2008
5. ^ Blumenson, Eric; Eva S. Nilsen (2002-05-16). How to construct an underclass, or how the War on Drugs became a war on education (PDF). Drug Policy Forum of Massachusetts.
6. ^ Jo Blanden; Paul Gregg and Stephen Machin (April 2005). "Intergenerational Mobility in Europe and North America" (PDF). The Sutton Trust. http://www.suttontrust.com/reports/IntergenerationalMobility.pdf.
7. ^ Matthew Taylor (25 April 2005). "UK low in social mobility league, says charity". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/britain/article/0,2763,1469685,00.html.
8. ^ Michele Lamont; Virag Molnar (2002). "[users.fmg.uva.nl/jrath/educ/@Lamont_Molnar_Boundaries_ARS_2002.pdf the study of boundaries in the social sciences]" (PDF). users.fmg.uva.nl/jrath/educ/@Lamont_Molnar_Boundaries_ARS_2002.pdf.
9. ^ Kevin Lynch (1960), The Image of The City, The MIT Press
10. ^ a b Robert J. Sampson; Jeffery Morennoff and Thomas Gannon-Rowley (2002), Assessing Neighborhood Effects: Social Process and New Directions in Research, Annual Review of Sociology

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Thing is, anyone can edit it, It doesnt matter as a secondary resource, it gives a wider range of error.

Heck, I am an avid editor of wikipedia, but that doesnt mean I dont make mistake, plus the occasional jerk will come in and change details in the slightest to throw off people who look at wikipedia and assume it is a reliable source.

Heck, I am an avid editor of wikipedia, but that doesnt mean I dont make mistake, plus the occasional jerk will come in and change details in the slightest to throw off people who look at wikipedia and assume it is a reliable source.