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What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil? (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 months ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Upward mobility

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What is that even?

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

The idea that you can actually move above your station through the course of your life, when the biggest predictor of wealth/prosperity starts and stops with the zip code you're born into.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago

It's still a thing, but it's a multigenerational process.