Kristof reaction

Nicholas Kristof uses his article U.S.A., Land of Limitations? to share his views on how America has turned from the “ land of opportunity’ to a country in which “ replicating the barriers and class gaps that drove them away.”.   Kristof’s main argument is that in present society social mobility, or intergenerational income elasticity, is becoming less fluid then it used to be.  This means that a child is more likely to stay in the same social class into which they were born than to be born into one social class then grow up and move up in social classes.  I agree with what Kristof is saying as I have also seen what he is describing if not a more difficult time as the article is from three years ago and a society has changed greatly since then and so has the earths population.  I think that the massive growth in population and advances in technology had an affect on the social mobility as the world has become more saturated and there is no longer a vast margin of opportunity as most of the “new ideas and or jobs are taken limiting the chance for a breakout from ones current social class.  I also believe that the newer generations are less and less worried/focused on moving up in social classes where as in the past people would dedicate themselves to trying to move up in the social class and make a better life for themselves.  For example it used to be easier in the past to be a successful business owner yet in todays market there area so many companies providing the same select service so it becomes a fight for survival of the business as opposed to a way to move up social classes.