This is absolute nonsense. The history of or country is basically one where poverty was the norm. People were poor but decent. Get a clue.
Yes, but now it's OK to hate rich people. It's OK to blame everyone else for your being unemployed. It's OK to commit crime in cyclical economic downturns.
This is absolute nonsense. The history of or country is basically one where poverty was the norm. People were poor but decent. Get a clue
How silly you are.
In the rapidly expanding industrial economy plagued by chronic labor shortages the American Dream was very real. If you kept your nose clean, saved your money, and worked hard you could have a better future. You didnt' even need a high school diploma fifty years ago to get a job that would give you a pension, health insurance, paid vacations, and the ability to afford a house.
That was a rational reason for hope in the future in the context of rising levels of employment and real income growth.
In deindustrialization/free trade a low-semi skilled worker in the first world will never do better than tread water because the global economy neither wants nor needs him. There really is no rational reason for him to have any hope in the future in a nation where white collar professionals are outsourced out of work in batches. In the words of the '70's punk anthem "No Future !" which summed up the prospects of a British Midlands young working class lad. I know you very deeply resent the thought that this could be the lot of white people but already rates of incarceration, illegitimacy, substance abuse among low-semi skilled whites are approaching underclass levels.
It's the free trade future. Ain't it grand ?