• Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Middle class white people in America aren’t, but pretty much the entire rest of the world is.

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        1 year ago

        The quality of life worldwide has steadily been increasing since industrialization.

        The quality of life of middle class white Americans has remained pretty much unchanged since the end of the second world war.

        Im not going to get examples, but that’s what my point was.

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          1 year ago

          I‘m sorry but this is not correct. People used to live in one worker households and got by. The housing prices (only thing I could find) in the US has tripled since the sixties which is an increase of 7% pa.

          GDPs are rising fast but wages are not keeping up. Here‘s a source for europe: https://www.ft.com/content/0a245c28-6cc3-11e9-80c7-60ee53e6681d

          It’s not like poor white people are having ouwie now. The 1% are 10000%ing their income while the rest goes home empty.