It's a bit of a weird sensation to realize that the majority of my peers didn't grow up lower class, they mostly went to college and didn't work jobs that put them in a lot of physical pain. I think I unconsciously assumed that there were more people from my class out here.
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96 percent of Americans born in the lower class never leave it. And there's barely a middle class any more.
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I’m surprised this was a blind spot for you. Especially with all the talk of social immobility and inequality.
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Why is the amount of influence relevant to this discussion/realization? Can you elaborate?
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You are way smarter than your peers. It isn’t that complicated really, what complicates things is that you cling on to an identity of belonging in a certain ”class”.
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Discourse is mostly upper middle class vs rich
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I don’t think the poll accurately represents the different ‘classes’ people can come from. Limiting it to just two probably forces a lot of people say they had it better than others (since it always could have been worse), even if relatively they did not.
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Class mobility is unfortunately very low in America these days.
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There would be a lot more understanding of your class if more people got out. That’s something I have noticed is how disconnected people are as I have done okay. But I look at my friends, and everyone is in the same class or lower than their parents.
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Very interesting. I was homeschooled in Dallas and have exactly the opposite experience. All of our parents were lower middle class, but almost every one of my childhood friends got an engineering/medical degree, and is very well off now.
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