Almost Everyone has and is Paying a High Price for one of the Most Unequal Societies in History

The scientific mobility studies that proved that the US is last in mobility finally came out in the first decade of the 21st century.

Thirty to fifty years ago, as the far right moved toward taking complete control of the US, one of their favorite arguments was that "the greater economic freedom in the US as opposed to Europe means that it is easier for a poor person in the US to economically achieve than it is for a poor person in Europe. Like so much more "wisdom" from the right, we can now see what utter trash that argument was. Trouble is, the far right got the prize that motivated that and other false arguments: they received and they maintain today full control over US society.

And what an irony it is that shortly after those studies were produced, the entire US society (except maybe the top half of one percent, and even they were temporarily damaged) experienced downward mobility. Everyone had to pay a price when the orgy of right wing economics produced one of the very most unequal societies in world history. There is some classic poetic justice in that history for you.

That price is not yet fully paid, by the way.

The above was in response to this article at Common Dreams.

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