Heritability

I never really grasped the illusion of social mobility until I recently read the provocative 2014 book, The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility by economist Gregory Clark. [...] Elites today disproportionately come from the same families that were elite hundreds of years ago—to a degree that is shockingly unknown to most people.
-- Justin MurphyThe Social Mobility Illusion (otherlife.co) 
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