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Science | The GuardianSocial success not about who you know – it’s about knowing who knows whom <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/20/social-climbing-stanford-university-research" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/20/social-climbing-stanford-university-research</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Highereducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Highereducation</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Socialetiquette" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Socialetiquette</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Socialmobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Socialmobility</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Lifeandstyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lifeandstyle</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Friendship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Friendship</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Worldnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Worldnews</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Education</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Students</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Society</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Science</a>

Lifestyle | The Guardian USSocial climbing isn’t about who you know after all, study finds <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/20/social-climbing-stanford-university-research" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/20/social-climbing-stanford-university-research</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Highereducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Highereducation</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Socialetiquette" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Socialetiquette</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Socialmobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Socialmobility</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Lifeandstyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lifeandstyle</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Friendship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Friendship</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Worldnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Worldnews</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Education</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Students</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Society</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Science</a>

Opinion | The Guardian USIf you went to state school, do you ever feel British life is rigged against you? Welcome to the 93% Club | Alastair Campbell <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/19/state-school-britain-93-club-privately-educated" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/19/state-school-britain-93-club-privately-educated</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/AlastairCampbell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AlastairCampbell</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Socialmobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Socialmobility</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Privateschools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Privateschools</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Education</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Schools</a>

Liam O'Mara IV, PhDThe <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StudentLoan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StudentLoan</a> system was created to keep people mired in debt and limit student radicalism, forcing them into viewing education as a career path. The financial system is rigged to keep the rich wealthy and slow or stop <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialMobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialMobility</a> (we rank 27th globally). <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CapitalismKills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CapitalismKills</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"Our capital allocators – who, during the post-war, post-New Deal era were often drawn from working families – are now increasingly, relentlessly born to that role.For the wealthy, this is the origin of the meritocracy to eugenics pipeline. If power and privilege are inherited – and they are, ever moreso every day – then either we live in an extremely unfair society in which the privileged and the powerful have rigged the game…or the invisible hand has created a subspecies of thoroughbred humans who were literally born to rule.This is the thesis of the ultra-rich, the moral justification for rigging the system so that their failsons and faildaughters will give rise to faildestinies of failgrandkids and failgreat-grandkids, whose emergence from history's luckiest orifices guarantees them a lifelong tenure ordering other people around. It's the justification for some people being born to own the places where the rest of us live, and the rest of us paying them half our salaries just so we don't end up sleeping on the sidewalk."Hereditary meritocracy" is just a polite way of saying "eugenics." It starts from the premise of the infallible invisible hand and then attributes all inequality in society to the hand's perfect judgment, its genetic insight in picking the best people for the best jobs. If people of one race are consistently on top of the pile, that's the market telling you something about their genomes. If men consistently fare better in the economy than women, the invisible hand is trying to say something about the Y chromosome for anyone with ears to hear.Capitalism's winners have always needed "a superior moral justification for selfishness," a discreet varnish to shine up the old divine right of kings."<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/20/big-cornflakes-energy/#caliper-pilled" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/20/big-cornflakes-energy/#caliper-pilled</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Inequality</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SocialMobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialMobility</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Meritocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Meritocracy</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Eugenics</a>

Kathy BrysonDefining a "good life" vs. an emotional high - take the quiz here <a href="https://buff.ly/hs7jQS4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://buff.ly/hs7jQS4</a> How to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/flourish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#flourish</a> –– even when you aren’t at your happiest, according to research | CNN <a href="https://buff.ly/gEITvkS" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://buff.ly/gEITvkS</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/happiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#happiness</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialmobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialmobility</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#health</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/relationships" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#relationships</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/financialsecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#financialsecurity</a>

Acta SociologicaAnthony Heath and Yaojun Li provide "a fascinating account of how sociologists [...] have succeeded in developing and testing theories about the causes, trends, and consequences of social mobility." Read Stefan Andrade's thorough review of recently published Social Mobility 👇<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00016993241287430" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00016993241287430</a><a href="https://sciences.social/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociology</a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/socialmobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialmobility</a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/stratification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#stratification</a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/bookreview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookreview</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/sociology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@sociology</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@academicchatter</a>

GESIS<a href="https://sciences.social/tags/Homeownership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Homeownership</a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/WealthInequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WealthInequality</a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/SocialMobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialMobility</a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/Housing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Housing</a> 🏠 Who gets to own a home – and why? New study by <a href="https://sciences.social/@jascha_draeger" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@jascha_draeger</a> <a href="https://sciences.social/@nrmllr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@nrmllr</a> and <a href="https://sciences.social/@klauspforr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@klauspforr</a> shows: ➡️ <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/Inheritances" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Inheritances</a> & family gifts – even just expected – strongly influence who buys property. They account for up to 54% of homeownership gaps between social classes. Without these transfers, children from working-class families are far less likely to buy a home. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103190" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103190</a>

GRK 2571 - EmpiresCheck out the newly published conference report “The Empire and I: Individuals in Empires and Postimperial Spaces”! The conference was organised by <a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/@GRK2571" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@GRK2571</a> at <a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/@unifreiburg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@unifreiburg</a> (28–30 Nov 2024).Written by Lara Forster & Kaja Plate, it explores personal perspectives on imperial frameworks.🔗Read it here: <a href="https://t1p.de/conf-rep-24" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://t1p.de/conf-rep-24</a><a href="https://wisskomm.social/@dfg_public" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@dfg_public</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@histodons</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@histodon</a> <a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/tags/empires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#empires</a> <a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/tags/histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#histodon</a> <a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#histodons</a> <a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/tags/conference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conference</a> <a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/tags/postimperial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#postimperial</a> <a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/tags/academicpublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academicpublishing</a> <a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/tags/imperialbiographies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#imperialbiographies</a> <a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/tags/socialmobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialmobility</a> <a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/tags/romanempire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#romanempire</a> <a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/tags/ottomanhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ottomanhistory</a> <a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/tags/habsburgempire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#habsburgempire</a> <a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/tags/colonialhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#colonialhistory</a> <a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/tags/genderedspaces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#genderedspaces</a> <a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/tags/globalhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#globalhistory</a> <a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/tags/institutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#institutions</a> <a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/tags/earlymodernhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#earlymodernhistory</a>

Katy ElphinstoneBeing on social benefits...... in the UK has some interesting disadvantages 🤨 👇 <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Welfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Welfare</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SocialBenefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialBenefits</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SingleParent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SingleParent</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Disability</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Poverty</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/PovertyTrap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PovertyTrap</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SocialMobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialMobility</a>

EditorHousebuilder’s charitable foundation launches new £200,000 funding programmePersimmon say a total of £200,000 is available, with applications now open for two £50,000 donations, which will be awarded in May.A second round of funding will open in June, with an additional two £50,000 donations awarded in September.The latest winners in Wales were the charity arms of both Cardiff City and Swansea City football clubs.Cardiff City FC Community Foundation delivers a range of impactful initiatives that engage individuals and communities, offering opportunities to develop skills, improve well-being, and foster community cohesion.Swansea City AFC Community Foundation runs innovative programmes that address challenges such as social isolation, health inequalities, and educational gaps, focussing on building prosperity by inspiring educational achievement and entrepreneurial spirit. Advertisement Persimmon say the aim of the programme is to give more charities and community groups the opportunity to access Foundation donations. Applications are encouraged from organisations that focus on social mobility and youth development, including learning and training.Anthony Vigor, Chair of the Foundation, said: “This new open application programme will create new opportunities for us to support organisations that tackle inequality and aid social mobility, helping us to change more lives.”The deadline for applications for the first round of funding is 11.59pm on Sunday, April 13th. Charities can apply via the Foundation section of the Persimmon Corporate website at <a href="https://www.persimmonhomes.com/corporate/foundation" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">persimmonhomes.com/corporate/foundation</a><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://swanseabaynews.com/tag/charity/" target="_blank">#Charity</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://swanseabaynews.com/tag/community/" target="_blank">#community</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://swanseabaynews.com/tag/football/" target="_blank">#football</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://swanseabaynews.com/tag/grant-funding/" target="_blank">#grantFunding</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://swanseabaynews.com/tag/persimmon/" target="_blank">#Persimmon</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://swanseabaynews.com/tag/social-mobility/" target="_blank">#socialMobility</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://swanseabaynews.com/tag/swansea/" target="_blank">#Swansea</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://swanseabaynews.com/tag/swansea-city-foundation/" target="_blank">#SwanseaCityFoundation</a>

Miguel Afonso CaetanoTypical "Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor" scenario:"Many Americans are pinching pennies, exhausted by high prices and stubborn inflation. The well-off are spending with abandon. The top 10% of earners—households making about $250,000 a year or more—are splurging on everything from vacations to designer handbags, buoyed by big gains in stocks, real estate and other assets.Those consumers now account for 49.7% of all spending, a record in data going back to 1989, according to an analysis by Moody’s Analytics. Three decades ago, they accounted for about 36%.All this means that economic growth is unusually reliant on rich Americans continuing to shell out. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, estimated that spending by the top 10% alone accounted for almost one-third of gross domestic product. Between September 2023 and September 2024, the high earners increased their spending by 12%. Spending by working-class and middle-class households, meanwhile, dropped over the same period. “The finances of the well-to-do have never been better, their spending never stronger and the economy never more dependent on that group,” said Zandi, who oversaw the analysis, which was based on data from the Federal Reserve. The analysis runs through the third quarter of 2024 because that is the most recent data available. Taken together, well-off people have increased their spending far beyond inflation, while everyone else hasn’t. The bottom 80% of earners spent 25% more than they did four years earlier, barely outpacing price increases of 21% over that period. The top 10% spent 58% more."<a href="https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/us-economy-strength-rich-spending-2c34a571" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/us-economy-strength-rich-spending-2c34a571</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Inequality</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Poverty</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SocialMobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialMobility</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Plutocracy</a>

Linknationworking for a <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/betterworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#betterworld</a> for everybody definately pays off but unfortunately the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#corruption</a> in this <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/finance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#finance</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/system" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#system</a> is MASSIVE <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/garycseconomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#garycseconomics</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@garyseconomics/videos" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/@garyseconomics/videos</a> Gary's economics - <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/socialmobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialmobility</a> - most people end up being as <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/rich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rich</a> or <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/poor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poor</a> as their <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/parents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#parents</a> what this means: in <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/possession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#possession</a> is not taxed enough and <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/work" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#work</a> is <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/tax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tax</a> ed too much even worse: the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/superrich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#superrich</a> basically avoid tax completely which of couse leads to massive social <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/inqeuality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#inqeuality</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#economics</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/finance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#finance</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#money</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/bank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bank</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/banks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#banks</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/wtf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wtf</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/stopthismadness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#stopthismadness</a>

Gary HallNew research highlights the ‘lost Einstein’ problem: most Nobel science laureates grew up in households near the top 10% income bracket—over half in the top 5%.Want your child to win a Nobel? The data suggests two tips: have a son and live in the U.S.<a href="https://conference.nber.org/conf_papers/f209309.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://conference.nber.org/conf_papers/f209309.pdf</a><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NobelPrize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NobelPrize</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/socialmobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialmobility</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/class" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#class</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/classwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#classwar</a>

Gary HallA report relased today from the University of Glasgow, and commissioned by the Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS), finds that ‘the median income for visual artists is just £12,500 a year. This represents a 40% decrease in earnings since 2010 (£16,000) and is 47% lower than the income of full-time minimum wage workers (£23,795).’<a href="https://www.dacs.org.uk/news-events/artists-earnings-report-2024" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.dacs.org.uk/news-events/artists-earnings-report-2024</a> The situation is even worse for women who earn 40% less than men, and disabled artists who earn a median of just £3,750.<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/visualart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#visualart</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#copyright</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/creative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#creative</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/socialmobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialmobility</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/disabilityjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disabilityjustice</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#women</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workers</a>

Gary HallA future seems to be beckoning in the UK where an arts and humanities education will be available only to privileged people at a small number of so-called ‘top universities’. As it is, research just published by the Sutton Trust reveals that already ‘there are low proportions of students from lower socio-economic backgrounds on a range of creative degrees’.Over half of the creative students at four such institutions – Oxford, Cambridge, King’s College London and Bath – are from upper-middle-class backgrounds. While Cambridge (4%), Oxford (5%), Bath (4%) and Bristol (5%) have the lowest percentages of students studying creative subjects who come from working-class backgrounds. <a href="https://www.suttontrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/A-Class-Act.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.suttontrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/A-Class-Act.pdf</a><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/humanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humanities</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/creative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#creative</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/class" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#class</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/classwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#classwar</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#universities</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#highered</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/socialmobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialmobility</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈And I don't see it changing any time soon. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/28/uk-loses-out-on-19bn-in-annual-gdp-growth-due-to-lack-of-social-mobility" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/28/uk-loses-out-on-19bn-in-annual-gdp-growth-due-to-lack-of-social-mobility</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UKPOL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UKpolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Poverty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialMobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialMobility</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UK</a>

Lifestyle | The Guardian USWelcome to the club: why are private members’ clubs booming? <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/13/welcome-to-the-club-why-are-private-members-clubs-booming" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/13/welcome-to-the-club-why-are-private-members-clubs-booming</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Food</a>&drinkindustry <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Socialmobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Socialmobility</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Lifeandstyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lifeandstyle</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Society</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Pubs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pubs</a>

Opinion | The Guardian USThe American dream is dead for many. Social democracy can bring it back | Bhaskar Sunkara <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/16/social-democracy-america" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/16/social-democracy-america</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Socialmobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Socialmobility</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USpolitics</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/USeconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USeconomy</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Society</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Poverty</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/USnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USnews</a>

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrichvia <a href="https://glasgow.social/@jayvanbavel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@jayvanbavel</a> Believing in the American Dream increases affluent parents’ likelihood of "opportunity hoarding"Affluent parents who believed in <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/socialMobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialMobility</a>, unfairly advantage their children (eg misrepresenting their identities on school & job applications) <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2407230121?utm_source=TOC&utm_medium=ealert&TOC_v121_i37=&ref=d22276" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2407230121?utm_source=TOC&utm_medium=ealert&TOC_v121_i37=&ref=d22276</a>

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