Dr.Traveler
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The middle class, if it is declining, is declining because manufacturing is moving overseas to escape unions and taxes. Not because anyone is taking their wealth. And please, tell me how the working class is more impoverished than they used to be? The main difference is that the middle and working class has not advanced as fast as the investor class, not that they've declined. Both still have basically the same standard of living (or slightly higher) as they did 30 years ago or even 50 years ago. Rather that worry about how rich get richer what poorer people need to woory about is how the government is making their money worth less by purposefully inflating it.
I pos repped this because I agree with almost all of it. I'd disagree that the working class has the same quality of life as they did 30 years back, as there are much fewer good opportunities for someone in thE working class. It's also getting harder to get a shot at upward mobility these days.
That's due to a lot of things, but as the quality jobs you can land without a college degree keep heading overseas while the cost of education at all levels keep going up things aren't going to get better anytime soon.
I certainly hope no one has ever called you an optimist.
Immie
I'm optimistic when theres something to be optimistic about. Sadly the fact is that without a college degree you are roadkill in this economy, but as the coat of a college degree goes up, that door to a better life is closing fast.