it is however a fact that the upper middle class is vastly more mobile than the working class
and through the 19th and early 20th I do think there was a reasonable expectation of being better off than before
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only comparable situation now illegals/refugees and their QoL jump is justified by abysmal conditions they leave
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for american working poor who can't do the whole be a programmer thing I don't believe there is a possibility...
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...of doing better enough to overcome inertia and justify risk
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Maybe the problem is no one actively WANTS to be a subsistence farmer on 100 acres anymore.
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problem is unskilled laborers more fungible and less useful than a century ago and pathways to ownership harder
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and it's only going to get worse for them
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