Hacker News with Generative AI: Social Inequality

Yet another way the poor are subsidizing the rich: Credit Cards (theatlantic.com)
The American consumer is tapped out. Grocery prices are bananas, housing prices are obscene, out-of-pocket medical expenses are absurd, and child care is impossible to afford, if you can find it. To keep up with the basics, let alone the Joneses, American consumers have been charging more and more to their cards.
Economy, Finance, Credit Cards, Social Inequality
12 points by fortran77 14 days ago | 3 comments
NIH funding cuts hit red states, rural areas, underserved communities hardest (theconversation.com)
The National Institutes of Health is the largest federal funder of medical research in the U.S. NIH funds drive research and innovation, leading to better understanding and treatment of diseases and improved health outcomes.
NIH Funding, Healthcare, Public Health, Rural Communities, Social Inequality
10 points by rntn 26 days ago | 0 comments
AI will divide the best from the rest (economist.com)
Optimists hope the technology will be a great equaliser. Instead, it looks likely to widen social divides
Artificial Intelligence, Social Inequality, Economics
36 points by johnshades 47 days ago | 136 comments
What are non intelligent people like me supposed to do for money? (reddit.com)
Since the cost of living has surpassed most labor jobs wages and they don't seem to be moving anytime soon. What are people like me who aren't book smart or computer smart supposed to do?
Economics, Labor Market, Social Inequality
53 points by carabiner 50 days ago | 88 comments
Myth of Meritocracy (wikipedia.org)
Myth of meritocracy is a phrase arguing that meritocracy, or achieving upward social mobility through one's own merits regardless of one's social position, is not widely attainable in capitalist societies because of inherent contradictions.
Social Inequality, Capitalism, Sociology
12 points by DiscourseFan 86 days ago | 5 comments
An academic Great Gatsby Curve – How much academic success is inherited? (lse.ac.uk)
To what extent does academic success follow success? Drawing on a dataset of mentor-mentee relations and their citations, Ye Sun, Fabio Caccioli, Xiancheng Li and Giacomo Livan suggest the dynamics of citation and wealth inequality are surprisingly similar.
Academic Research, Social Inequality, Education, Economics
34 points by nabla9 102 days ago | 42 comments
Survey: Growing number of U.S. adults lack literacy skills (nbcnews.com)
The share of adults with literacy skills at the lowest measured levels increased substantially as the gap between the high-skilled and low-skilled in the U.S. expands, according to new data from the National Center for Education Statistics’ latest survey of adult skills.
Education, Literacy, United States, Surveys, Social Inequality
11 points by madihaa 112 days ago | 2 comments
How the Ivy League Broke America (theatlantic.com)
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
Education, Social Inequality, Meritocracy, United States
69 points by yarapavan 128 days ago | 96 comments
The Math Says It's Getting Harder to Break into the American Middle Class (bloomberg.com)
As US Election Day approaches, inflation is largely tamed and wage gains have lifted incomes. Yet the economy remains the most pressing issue in the presidential race for one big reason: Increasingly, for many Americans, the long-standing building blocks of middle-class life feel frustratingly unattainable.
Economics, Social Inequality, United States, Middle Class, Politics
15 points by mgh2 167 days ago | 4 comments
Class 'Inequity' Fuels Air Rage (avweb.com)
A little-known 2016 study by Princeton University researchers is getting attention again for a different take on why airline passengers are so grumpy these days.
Air Travel, Sociology, Social Inequality
32 points by thunderbong 185 days ago | 46 comments
The American dream is dead for many. Social democracy can bring it back (theguardian.com)
The widening life expectancy gap between poor and rich Americans, which now averages more than 10 years, is perhaps the most dramatic example of a basic point that most of us take for granted: a kid growing up in a wealthy area is likely to have a wildly better life outcome compared to one growing up in a poor one.
Social Inequality, Economics, United States, Political Systems
11 points by rbanffy 196 days ago | 4 comments
The American Dream Feels Out of Reach for Most (wsj.com)
Social Inequality, Economics, United States
6 points by fortran77 217 days ago | 0 comments
Congress shouldn't pass AI protections only rich people can use (fightforthefuture.org)
Artificial Intelligence, Policy, Social Inequality
19 points by hassanahmad 217 days ago | 1 comments
Richest Americans Now Pay Less Tax Than Working Class in Historical First (newsweek.com)
Taxation, Economics, Social Inequality, United States
60 points by ahiknsr 327 days ago | 92 comments