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If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

— David Frum

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank they don't like to think of themselves as poor.

— Jay-Z

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

— Ferdinand Mount

The United States prides itself on being the richest country in the world. Yet we can't balance the budget, pay for education, or take care of the aged and infirm.

— Paul Hawken

There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.

— Hillary Clinton

What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest.

— Tom Hodgkinson

The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.

— Esther Duflo

Every country has rich people. But only a few places have achieved a vibrant and stable middle class. And in the history of the world, none has been more vibrant and more stable than the American middle class.

— Marco Rubio

Rich people in one country don't act the same as rich people in another country.

— Kenneth Langone

If the country's poorer, it's got less money.

— George Osborne

✗Opposing Perspectives

All countries have poor people. Yet it's a very rare country which understands the indignities of poverty, while education systems maintain the status quo. The children of the elite go to the best schools and get the best jobs, not because they are the best. We're not taking advantage of the intellectual power on this planet.

— Ann Cotton