Upward mobility has been shattered. And no one in power cares enough to fix it | Paul Mason
by Paul Mason from on (#39S5E)
Our economic system didn't intend to suppress the social mobility of working-class kids, but it has. Now their prospects are so bleak that Labour's promises to the postwar working class seem practically Bolshevik
If I wanted to save capitalism, I would prioritise social mobility. Not Jude the Obscure-style mobility, where it happens over generations, but the kind we achieved in the postwar era. The kind that sent orphan, gang member and naval rating Bernard Schwartz to acting school to become Tony Curtis. The kind that makes things better in your lifetime and, in fact, in your first decade as an adult.
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