[ExI] Social Mobility and Bioconservatism

[Stefano Vaj]

According to a report published not by some fringe Trozkist group, but
by the Bank of Italy, it would appear that social mobility in Italy
has by now been reduced to a practical *zero*, even amongst contiguous
classes, irrespective of the succession of governments.

In other words, super-rich are bound to stay super-rich, middle-class
people middle-class, blue-collar blue-collar and dropouts dropouts.

This vastly exceeds whatever hypothetical role genetic traits may play
in the achievement and maintaining of social positions in western
societies and illustrates how routine, "humanitarian" attacks from the
"left" against presumed Social Darwinist penchants in the conservative
discourse deal in fact with a strayman, since no matter how weak,
stupid, misfit and handicapped you are, your chances are today the
best ever of your remaining nevertheless in the position you were
born, and to have your children just do the same; while conversely
being strong, clever, driven, etc. does not seem to change much in
your lot, except perhaps in giving you more chances to become the war
chief of a youth gang. Today, Howard Roark and John Galt would have
clearly been employees in a post office, if this had been their
parents' work.

The fact that most people, including those relatively underprivileged,
seem also to believe, owing perhaps also to an aging population, that
they have more to lose than to gain from any change to such scenario
may also explain why bioconservatism remains so popular. "Avoid
rocking the boat" sounds as a the primary slogan in an increasingly
Brave-New-Worldish scenario... :-(

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Stefano Vaj