No one expects young men to do anything and they are responding by doing nothing

Re:No one expects young men to do anything and they are resp... by throwaway0a5e on Sunday April 24, 2022 @03:27PM (#31147395)

>It's not about "dont give a fuck". This is about intergenerational poverty, and the costs that we all will have to pay because the elites decided to destroy social mobility for the poverty-stricken classes.

I'm sorry but that is just an asinine thing to say and a textbook case of solving "my pet issue will fix the world" thinking.

Inter-generational poverty was the norm until the industrial revolution. While it certainly sucked for the people living it and we should definitively be taking steps to reduce it it is demonstrably tangential to societal stability.

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Re:No one expects young men to do anything and they are resp... by fzeroracer on Sunday April 24, 2022 @04:12PM (#31147869)

I don't know if I would call it exactly tangential to societal stability, since we have multiple historical examples of what happens when inter-generational poverty goes too far. And usually the end result is not pretty for those in charge.

It seems easy to say that societal stability isn't dependent on social mobility until the lower class decides that it's time to bring out the guillotines.

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