Re:Blame Economists for the Mess We’re In
by naasking on Sunday August 25, 2019 @09:50PM
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Is there a survey or study of the demographics? I'm genuinely curious about how it currently looks because I have a hard time believing the upper crust bothers with this sort of thing any more. Service just doesn't seem to carry the social weight it once did, and there are plenty of stories of rich kids dodging deployments and the like.
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Re:Blame Economists for the Mess We’re In
by civilian on Monday August 26, 2019 @08:04AM
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Based on the data here, the grandparent is wrong. Maybe they were historically correct, but today the three middle quintiles of economic class is over-represented https://www.cfr.org/article/demographics-us-military (Look for the graph titled "Neighborhood affluence for 2016 recruits")