The middle class is over. It's not coming back.

Re:The middle class is over. It's not coming back. by ulf on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @10:27AM (#1783477)

This strikes me as an interesting point:

"10) In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness"

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Re:The middle class is over. It's not coming back. by simonsarris on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @10:58AM (#1783610)

While the statement certainly seems at first almost trivially true, I think there are cases to be made that the second part is not.

For instance: a non-trivial amount of people after leaving college have a significant 'draw-down' in the amount of people they talk to or (you could say) have a connectedness to. Facebook is still there, they still have 300 friends, but the number of people with whom they have meaningful interactions slims and may (for some) continue to slim for the rest of their lives.

I imagine the elderly (in the US) today, especially, are far less connected, even taking in to account those which have skype,etc.

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