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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3718 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What Makes People Poor?

I'll take your word for it. If I'm not intended as the article's audience, it's okay that the article struck me as idiotic and tone deaf.

I think the conservatives are fucked, frankly. Mommy & Daddy are a lot less likely to have an estate in this day and age (granted, if they have one it's likely to be bigger than grandpa's). That's the bugbear of wealth concentration - fewer Joneses, easier to keep up with. Every analysis I've seen points to the fact that Millenials are investing less and saving more than any generation since the Great Depression... a demographic like that doesn't swing for trickledown they swing for socialism. Meanwhile, they're growing up not really caring about gay marriage, living in a country that's steadily legalizing marijuana and in an environment where "terrorists" are the closest we can get to a bodily enemy but giant corporations surround them to fuck up their day.