Social Mobility
topic on 2 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes
American Optimist
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath
2 statements about Social Mobility, every show
Sharma: American discontent is driven by declining social and geographic mobility
“That's one of the reasons the grievance of people is because over time these gaps have increased a lot more. You know, where you feel that you can't, ah, that social mobility is going on because you can't move from one city to another that easily as you, like,…”
Fryer: Economics neglected equal opportunity in favor of silly topics
“What I noticed was these tools were beautiful, but used for silly things. And the things that were most important for American optimism like how do people get jobs that are equated with their skill level? How do you actually make true equal opportunity in Amer…”