Comment by James_K
2 years ago
> But then you get into why the parents are poor in the first place, and there are many causes, but a lot of them get passed down to the next generation in one way or another.
Are you trying to say that these people are genetically poor?
To give one example, today's wealth distribution in UK still correlates quite strongly with Norman descent from the original participants of the Conquest. That's over 1,000 years of still-measurable generational wealth transfer.
Generational wealth is a thing...
I took it to infer that there are systemic factors that disadvantage segments of the population disproportionately and across generations.
Having worked with disadvantaged and vulnerable populations I would agree, we only hear about the pulled up by the bootstraps success stories and readily ignore the 99.99% of cases where offspring are worse off financially than their parents.