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Understanding Society
Personal blog · understandingsociety.blogspot.comphilosophyeconomics
Understanding Society is a personal blog at understandingsociety.blogspot.com about philosophy and economics. Since 2010, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers cite this blog's posts on social mobility to support the point that a person's future wealth is largely predicted by their parents' wealth. The only comment is a citation, not an evaluation.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
It's also worth pointing out that social mobility in the US is very low.[1]The single greatest predictor to your future wealth is your parent's wealth, which obviously you had nothing to do with. 1) http://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2009/08/social-mobi...
Comment linking /2009/08/social-mobility.html
on “The Fall of the American Worker”Submitted John von Neumann and stochastic simulations as a story · 43 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Acting as a Group (2009) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Issues of Ethics in Philosophy of History as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The case for realism in the social realm as a story · 1 points
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HN discussionSubmitted The standard of living across time and space as a story · 1 points
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