Social Mobility

A world that relies on social inequality to keep its machinery running can only afford for a handful of people to imagine themselves “gifted.”

After the 1970s, meritocracy began to look more and more like Michael Young’s dark satire. A system intended to give each new generation an equal chance to rise created a new hereditary class structure. Educated professionals pass on their money, connections, ambitions, and work ethic to their children, while less educated families fall further beh