An academic shows a truism...

Having the term doctorate means your are educated. It doesn't mean you are not a moron.

The professor Gregory Clark says the American Dream is dead and actually never existed. This stupidity makes me recall this statement:

An economist is someone who knows 100 ways to make love, but doesn't know any women.

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Let's just hear the learned man's words.

UC Davis Economics Professor: There Is No American Dream

A UC Davis economics professor has determined there is no American Dream.

Gregory Clark is sharing his research as a hard truth with no hope—whether or not you can get ahead in America is as predictable as any formula.

In fact, he says, the formulas for social mobility in the United States show there’s nothing to dream about.

“America has no higher rate of social mobility than medieval England, Or pre-industrial Sweden,” he said. “That’s the most difficult part of talking about social mobility is because it is shattering people s dreams.”

Clark crunched the numbers in the U.S. from the past 100 years. His data shows the so-called American Dream—where hard work leads to more opportunities—is an illusion in the United States, and that social mobility here is no different than in the rest of the world.

“The status of your children, your grandchildren, your great grandchildren your great-great grandchildren will be quite closely related to your average status now,” he said....

...Clark has heard the naysayers before.

“My students always argue with me, but I think the thing they find very hard to accept, is the idea that much of their lives can be predicted from their lineage and their ancestry,” he said.

Stuck in a social status is no American Dream—Clark says it’s the American reality.

“The good news is that this is coming from an economist, because economists are used to being unpopular, and so we are the right people to bear this message that the world is a limiting place,” he said....

No Mr. Clark, you are unpopular because you're an idiot.

Sorry to tell you but you've been in the Ivory Tower for far too long and you may recall this saying, "There are lies, there are damnable lies and then there are statistics." Opportunity to advance is there but many people just don't like it when it's called hard work. Get a job, show you are good at it, get a better job, go forth. Sometimes there are things that hold you back, but often they are poor choices you make. Substance abuse, getting involved with the wrong significant other, not saving to get ready for the rough times. Also, opportunities may require you to move from your hometown and you're unwilling to do that. But that's life.

Professor, get your head out of the clouds and get a real job. You may be educated, but you're a moron and I doubt you could run the night shift at a McDonald's.