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Subject: Re: Nice Ugly Americans Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:51:25 GMT

On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 00:34:21 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:

>Jim Ley writes:
>
>> Income mobility is less in the USA than it is in Sweden, the
>> Netherlands, and similar to much of the rest of Europe, although
>> higher than france of course, working hard does you good everywhere,
>> no more so in Europe than anywhere else.
>
>Sweden has great mobility within a very narrow range. USA has less
>mobility, but with no limitations on the range.

Definitions please... Do you mean people can only move one class or
what?

>> Also it's perfectly possible to join the royal families of many
>> European countries through marriage...
>
>Try reaching the throne that way.

What has 1 person in any generation got to do with the general case -
Royalty really is a ridiculous argument on social mobility.

[Royal Families]
>They are disproportionately costly.

Really, I thought many were revenue producing, but again it's not
relevant to the discussion.

Jim.