
“There’s a reason all those Euros came over here seeking opportunity!” When? In the 1890s? Yeah, sure, you got me there. As of right now, they’ve got way more economic mobility than we do. It’s easier to go from working class to upper-middle class in most of Western Europe than it is in the States, as of today. Seems the only economic mobility for the non-1% classes here in the States these days is downward. Our middle class has been shrinking for decades.