If you were born the year that my mother was born, at the end of World War II, there was a 90% chance that you would come out ahead and live better than how you were born. If you were born when I was in the early 80s, it's a coin flip. 50. 50 and headed in the wrong direction. So what's it going to be for your kids? For my kids, that's up to us. (23:15–23:20)
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Asserts that people born in the early 1980s have a 50% chance of upward mobility.
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