i don't think it's surprising that interacting with successful people is good for a person who'sno comes from osea poor home. What stands out for me in this work, and i think will be the the test of it in terms of its real impact, is the size, the magnitude, of the of this economic connectedness.
Economist Raj Chetty of Harvard University talks about his work on economic mobility with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. The focus is on Chetty's recent co-authored study in Nature where he finds that poor people in America who are only connected to other poor people do dramatically worse financially than poor people who are connected to a wider array of economic classes. The discussion includes the policy implications of this result as well as a discussion of Chetty's earlier work on the American Dream and the challenge of Americans born in recent decades to do better financially than their parents.