America is regressing into a developing nation for most people(ineteconomics.org) |
America is regressing into a developing nation for most people(ineteconomics.org) |
Cars with '50s technology. Same for washing machines. Crumbling infrastructure, people (usually dark-skinned) doing jobs that had been automated since before I was born. Windows that didn't close properly.
And yes, on the other hand incredible wealth. I went to a private school with people that never had, and probably never would, have any idea of how "The Rest of Us" live. Father: doctor or lawyer. Kid goes to private school, then on to an elite college (if grades aren't quite up to par, daddy has to buy a library). Graduate, prestigious law firm, house in the same sort of suburb they grew up in. At 13, they had their life mapped out, and a comfortable life it was.
I had never seen these sorts of divides in my native country. Different social classes live much closer together, go to the same schools and to the same universities, they don't live in totally separate spheres.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_Unite...
Quantitative data is important to see whether the qualitative data is actually representative.
For me, someone interested in politics, this is pretty obvious. Every european reporter that covers US politics talks about this divide: rich vs poor.
I do agree with other posters here that the article doesn't back up any claims with evidence, but I guess that's in the book. The author seems credible, to say the least.
That paragraph alone shows how heavily political this article is. It's just the basic, typical left-wing program. I'm not visiting HN to see this kind of crap.
Jordan Peterson has discussed how important IQ is in the modern economy and how both the left and the right are in denial about it. While the left thinks anyone can be anything, the right thinks lazy people just need to work harder. Both are wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjs2gPa5sD0
Difficult problem.
A liberal has written and spoken extensively on this phenomena:
I'd encourage people not to let HN's ridiculous faux-scientific culture enable you to persist in denial about how around 100 million people in the US live.
The SM in STEM doesn't pay, unless M is in Finance. Don't know why he would specifically call out Electronics unless he naively thinks that is software.
Drive down Woodward Ave or Telegraph Road and you get a cross-section of America.
USA is in no way more diverse than Europe. Are you saying that a guy from Lisboa and a guy from Prague (who, by the way, don't speak the same language) are more similar than a guy from LA and another from Columbus?
The root of the inequality in the USA is political, not the diversity.
Talking about anything across the USA is as insightful as talking about anything across the whole Europe, the point you have just supported. Do we cry about Europe turning into a developing nation because Moldova is not quite as developed as Monaco?
And FWIW I wouldn't really identify either way (maybe fiscal conservative, social liberal) but yes, hearing someone react viscerally and negatively to the suggestion we improve education did make me wonder if the OP was simply malicious, or was perhaps making some kind of joke. Hence the (serious) question.
Anyway, these are not even close to being the same. I was talking about the fact that the new cars being sold had ancient technology.
These were not "feelings". I mean, they were selling cars with rigid axles that would screech when turning corners. My dad (who worked for both US and German carmakers) explained other details to me about the engines, about fit-and-finish etc., but it was also painfully obvious for a layperson like myself.
I don't have a feel for what the worldwide car technology situation was in 1981, I was a few years from being born.