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Social mobility decays because the first generation of successful talent fills the top positions and then tries to reserve replacement slots for its own children.
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Social mobility decays because the first generation of successful talent fills the top positions and then tries to reserve replacement slots for its own children.
Parents who gain power redesign the system so their own children can inherit success, which blocks everyone else's children and pressures them to overflow the system.
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