Raising The Flag | Essay

Indledning
Social mobility is low in most countries – also in the United Kingdom. In a meritocratic society, where effort is encouraged and rewarded, intergenerational social stickiness is seen as harmful.

If more productive and able individuals are uncompensated for their effort, but lesser able people are, effort and incentives are not aligned.

This is never efficient. In countries where we strive for a more efficient and productive outcome, we would like to fight the harm of lacking social mobility.

Nevertheless, the United Kingdom has had lesser success than other countries like Canada, Sweden, or Australia in lowering the relationship between parents' incomes and their children. Why and what are the ramifications? How is the British government trying to solve it?

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Uddrag
Britain's reasons for doing this are summed up well by Nick Clegg's own words: "A fair society is an open society. A society in which everyone is free to flourish and rise.

Where birth is never destiny." Thresa May continued the path set by Nick when she was elected Prime Minister, promising to make her "big ambition" into "big action," also commenting on the poorest in society being left behind.

The EU referendum is proof of their dissatisfaction with policymakers being too slow to respond properly to large-scale issues like this one.

In conclusion, the British government takes the issue seriously and tries to solve it with limited to no success. However, for most working-class people, the response seems too slow and halfhearted.

Moreover, even if "big action" is taken by the current Pprime Mminister Boris Johnson there will still be an entire generation left behind.

Helping poor children through the chains of social inheritance is Cleary the government's primary objective because they deem that for 20–30-year old's it is already too late to educate them for better and higher-paying jobs, effectively leaving them behind to "run on the treadmill."

The only help they are trying to give is lowering the housing price, but seeing that hose prices in the London area have doubled in the last ten years, then according to common sense, we can conclude that that has not worked.