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What happens if parents lower their standards? They live in the wrong school district and their kid busses an hour each way. Having more kids so instead of chil
by pauldenton 3y ago
What happens if parents lower their standards? They live in the wrong school district and their kid busses an hour each way. Having more kids so instead of childcare you have the oldest raising the youngest?
Our parents spent less, and our grandparents less still. Our grandparents somehow did fine without even having to pay for Internet or a monthly smart phone plan.
Why cannot people drop their standards to what their grandparents or great grandparents expected?
- LarsDu88 3y agoThe simple answer is that most of the folks who have more kids will give rise to a generation of have-nots, and they will be on the unhappy side of an ever-widening gap between the super educated elites, and the merely educate plebes. It's silly to think that people in the states can simply drop their standards to that of their grandparents, when most of the "grandparent generation" of boomers grew up before most manufacturing jobs were either outsourced or automated. The mass automation of white collar industry that will happen withinin 20 years might reverse the dynamic IMO... where industries with ample training data for AI (mostly white collar knowledge economy stuff) will begin to automate as well, and blue collar jobs like construction (which may take longer to automate) will take much longer.