The constructive solution is to pay people fairly, and this argument is made over and over again…

Oh, and about those upward mobility statistics: https://www.forbes.com/sites/aparnamathur/2018/07/16/the-u-s-does-poorly-on-yet-another-metric-of-economic-mobility/?sh=26be859e6a7b

Upward mobility has declined 30 percent for my age cohort, and it gets worse every year.