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While we are safer, we also have more to lose. Advances in communication technology also means we are more exposed to stories of people who do lose it all, or simply slip down a level in SES, often generationally. While we may have an objectively higher standard of living in the working class in 2024 than the much of the upper class from 1924 did, very few people have a real internalized sense of this. Its why the cost of college has ballooned out of control while the number of people attending college is higher than ever; people are desperate to make the middle-class somehow hereditary.
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