Your parents' salaries do a very good job of predicting all of that already.

bootaccount · on Nov 9, 2018

I disagree. My parents emigrated to different lands (with me) to provide me additional opportunity to excel. I'm early into my career and have a higher salary [6fig] than my parents', primarily due to the sacrifices they made over the years.

My job, life and other attributes couldn't have been predicted by salary nor any other vanity metric.

Joe-Z · on Nov 9, 2018

But just the fact that your parents emigrated makes you part of a fringe group.

GP's point, as far as I understand, wasn't that it's impossible to move up the social ladder, just that it doesn't happen for most people.

dagoat · on Nov 9, 2018

> it doesn't happen for most people.

Is there data showing that?

the_duke · on Nov 10, 2018

The only widely available data that comes to mind for me is social mobility aka economic mobility.

It's not so easy to find a good compiled list by country but here s a start (see especially the chart at the bottom): http://www.verisi.com/resources/prosperity-upward-mobility.h...

lozaning · on Nov 10, 2018

Ad nauseum: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/rich-kids-stay-rich-poo...

If you're parents where educated and well off, you'll most likely be aswell, same if your parents are poor and uneducated.