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  • But it is the advanced stage which is causing the strife.

    Also, understanding that the programs that I mentioned weren’t available to all, they were available to enough to judge their past against the present. A white working class member of society whose family had access to programs to buy a house in the suburbs isn’t going to think about racial inequality when judging their current economic position compared to their parents and grandparents. They are going to compare the economics of the two eras and see that the economics of today are a lot harsher than before.






  • I disagree.

    The American government created a lot of various incentives to encourage ownership to a greater percentage of citizens compared to other countries at the time, including giving out free land, building infrastructure to develop new land, and creating programs which put people into homes that they owned.

    That government support in young adults to establish themselves economically has significantly shrunk over the past generation. We’ve also seen an increasingly divergent economy where the split between haves and have nots have only gotten bigger.

    A working class American in 1950 could claim that they were better off economically than the rest of the world and be right. That claim is no longer valid.