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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
All of it, I utterly reject all of the assertions that keep getting thrown around about how much worse it is today, I have an immeasurably better life than either my parents or grand parents.
I grew up without a TV or a car, and phone calls cost 10p a minute, 40 odd years later I live in a world where we all throw working TVs and computors and cell phones away because they arn't cool anymore.
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I don't think the point is that we have it worse than we did a few decades ago, it's that increasingly the middle class is being pushed into the lower class. Maybe being lower class isn't that bad anymore, but it doesn't really seem fair that the upper class becomes absurdly wealthy at the expense of pushing everyone else to the bottom.
And honestly, if that path continues the people at the bottom will be increasingly less able to be upwardly mobile. I don't see it falling to the state of a third world country anytime soon, but that's the end result if reforms aren't made.
The key for me is that these reforms need to be sensical, they need to operate in reality.