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Comment by aprilthird2021

1 day ago

Social capital is not measured in family wealth / income, but it can very easily translate into jobs and other valuable things (like when your father knows someone who can get you an interview)

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RobotToaster  1 day ago

I'd argue that they're very highly correlated. It would be an unusual outlier for someone to have high social capital but low wealth/income.

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