Reddit reviews The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
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Evidence suggests that there is less social mobility than you think. The richest families in Venice in the 1300s are the great great ... grandparents of the richest families in Venice today.
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Given the choice between higher income taxes which discourage wealth creation and higher estate taxes which discourage inter-generational transfers, I'd pick the latter.
Not according to Gregory Clark, who proved that there are no descendants of the laborers and practically every person in England was descended from those who owned property back in the 15th-18th century.
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The Top out of Sight, a class first described by Paul Fussell.
https://lionoftheblogosphere.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/another-post-about-the-top-out-of-sight/
(Trump and his cohort will never join them)
As someone who recently got their DNA genetic test thingy, it's hard to say what % of your genetics you have from your grandfather. I thought I was a quarter native American -- but I have like less than 5% Just depends on how the deck gets cut. My last name geneology goes back to England and English colonists to the US, but I have the same % English as I do native American. Although it is my last name, that makes up a small sliver of my genetics. Which when you think about the genetic tree, the farther you go back, you have so many ancestors, it's crazy.
That said, people with my last name seem to uncannily have similar interests/career paths/obsessions as me. (e.g., someone with my last name has published a book on environmental collapse)
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I found this book very enlightening on calling bullshit on "Scandinavia has higher social mobility than the US", because it really does not.
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Here's an interesting book for you.