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Originally Posted by MarchHare
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Charts like these should not be a surprise to anyone who knows their globalization studies. The modern globalization affects different social classes differently.
The TL;DR version would pretty much be that the benefits have mostly gone to the educated and financially better off, while the problems are pretty much only on the shoulders of the lower educated working classes.
Or alternatively: the modern globalization era of the last decades has been bad for the lower classes and good for the educated classes. How much it's an effect of globalization is debatable, but certainly people associate many recent developments with globalization. (Accurately or not.)
Anyway, that chart essentially says people vote according to their perceived self interest. News at 11.