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Why would you think the French live better lives? That's a silly assumption to make. You use the Human Development Index... but the Human development index has numerous problems.

Also it's not a "small" chance of improvement. Intergenerational mobility is actually quite good in the US.

58% of people in the US who were born into the lowest quartile move up.