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This is spot on. Decades ago, lower income parents stressed their kids getting more education, in order to compete effectively in the USA. Today that only seems true of parents who have been successful.
It's a term I call "class stagnation". Without adequate opportunities for folks from all walks of life, people get stuck in a predetermined social ladder... The one their parents deposited them in.
Opportunities of the past... Show up, work hard, be useful and keep your middle income job. You could start on the bottom and work your way up.
Today... Jobs are basically short term arrangements. Company needs labor, you need food. The relationship ends there. Workers don't stay at one place due to instability in the economy, intense competition leading to most consolidations, takeovers, bankruptcies, etc.
Opportunities are in short supply. People are actively selling themselves short in order to obtain one of those prized meal tickets. Lots of meat left on the table since workers have no way to demand more. Supply and demand. Companies judge candidates by age, race, education, gender, etc. It helps if you're a good salesman.
That's when you know the country is finished... It's the ones full of hot air getting the jobs in many cases.
I have said it over and over and over again -- I would much rather live next to a darker-skinned middle-class family (of whatever race or ancestry) than I would next to a Caucasian family who has "been on welfare" for several generations.
To me, "class" is what's important, not the color of one's skin!
So let me get this straight. Can we not consider both class and race as potential issues in American society? Are we allowed to only hold one idea in our heads?
The point, Adhom, is only one, race, is getting attention. But todays poor do not do the stuff the poor decades ago did to insure their kids would do better than them.
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