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Re:92% of young people would sacrifice other perks for a 4-d... by kelseyfrog on Friday November 03, 2023 @10:28AM (#38129314)
Upward mobility is a very recent phenomenon. Pesants weren't told that if they worked hard they could be nobility. There were born peasants and were very aware they would die peasants.

We're at a unique point in that there was a brief period in recent history where upward mobility was true, and now it's becoming untrue again and those for whom it was true don't believe its becoming untrue again.

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Re:92% of young people would sacrifice other perks for a 4-d... by s1artibartfast on Friday November 03, 2023 @12:12PM (#38130833)
Stories of past upward mobility was always a lie. People would have you think that somehow in the past, 50% of people were making it into the top 10%.

Perceptions of the past are filtered through media that The life of the top 5% was the average.

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