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>There has always been poor people in the US. ...and those poor people in the US could always look up to much better social mobility trends than the current on
by coldtea 2y ago
>There has always been poor people in the US.
...and those poor people in the US could always look up to much better social mobility trends than the current ones.
- watwut 2y ago"Always" is massive overstatement. If you was a woman, your only way up was if you found rich guy to marry you. It is not that women did not actually worked, but they had only lower paid jobs with no possibility of promotion available. If you was black, your abilities to go up were obviously severely limited. Even for whites, south had very stable social hierarchy - you had a place where you was meant to stay at. It was resembling aristocratic setup rather then actual free for all capitalism. Civil war changed that by a lot and opened mobility options that were not there before.