And posted as flamebait; it's not even a paper, but an abstract that requires a subscription to view the full paper. The question is whether the person who posted read the paper, or just agreed with the sentiment of the title.
With large-scale, population-representative data, we show that Americans are aware of, and in fact quite pessimistic about, the remarkably unequal distribution of economic outcomes by family background.
TL;DR things are substantially less bad than HN thinks they are, in part because things are actually less bad than everyone thinks they are, in part because the kind of people that make up a lot of HN are particularly pessimistic about economic mobility.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 30.2 ms ] threadWith large-scale, population-representative data, we show that Americans are aware of, and in fact quite pessimistic about, the remarkably unequal distribution of economic outcomes by family background.