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The rich are different

机译：有钱人与众不同

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Not long ago in the House of Commons, an obscure Labour MP-now destined to remain obscure―asked Tony Blair to outline his political philosophy. The prime minister prevaricated; but by way of a belated riposte, he made a speech explaining the values that distinguish his government from mere technocrats. One of these, he said, is its belief in "fairness". What this boils down to is that, like every British leader since the 1960s, Mr Blair claims to be a meritocrat. To many left-wing Labour MPS, of course, meritocracy is a distinctly timid goal. Nevertheless, it is a tough one to achieve; and new research suggests it is getting tougher. Like other countries, Britain has a goodly number of people who have exchanged their childhood rags for riches of one sort or another―for instance, Mr Blair's predecessor, John Major. Combined with rising levels of overall prosperity, these salutary examples create the impression of an increasingly fluid society. A paper presented to the Royal Economic Society last week punctures that complacency. The study compared the earnings of a group of people born in 1958 with those of one born in 1970. Having rich parents, it turned out, was even more of an advantage for children born in 1970 than it was for those born in 1958: the gap between the eventual adult incomes of better-off and worse-off children grew, even allowing for the general increase in income inequality since 1970.
机译：不久前，在下议院，一位名不见经传的工党议员-现在注定仍然晦涩难懂-向托尼·布莱尔提出了自己的政治哲学。首相pre之以鼻；但是他通过迟来的riposte演讲，解释了将他的政府与纯粹的技术官僚区分开的价值观。他说，其中之一就是它对“公平”的信念。归结为，就像自1960年代以来的每位英国领导人一样，布莱尔都声称自己是个精英。当然，对于许多左翼工党的MPS而言，精英管理是一个明显的胆小目标。然而，这是一个艰难的过程。新的研究表明，这种情况越来越严峻。与其他国家一样，英国也有很多人将童年的抹布换成一种或多种财富，例如布莱尔的前任约翰·梅杰。这些有益的例子与整体繁荣水平的提高相结合，给人一种日益流动的社会的印象。上周提交给皇家经济学会的一篇论文令人感到自满。该研究将1958年出生的人与1970年出生的人的收入进行了比较。事实证明，富裕的父母对1970年出生的孩子比对1958年出生的孩子更有利：最终，富裕儿童和穷困儿童的最终成人收入之间的差距增加了，甚至使1970年以来收入不平等现象普遍增加。

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