Data is Beautiful

I find the shift in black and Hispanic responses interesting as well. They were higher than white people before and now lower.

Even the 50+'ers are out here at 53%.

Things have definitely still gotten harder. Your framing isn't great because it implies things were just as hard a decade ago, which many factors point that isnt the case. I'm not saying it was easy then or the 67% were right, but things have gotten worse.

I gladly receive any news of the expansion of class consciousness, and appreciate the data to prove it.

yeah i feel like the 1960s were the last time that people could actually be born and expect a lifetime of good employment options. for everyone after that, we're either getting the scraps, there's a declining labor market, we get to do the jobs today that didn't get done in the decades earlier, because nobody bothered to do them before, because they're less rewarding, anyways there's a ~~stagnating~~ declining labor market because there's just not so many more things to do. if you're born in 1800, people are spreading all over america, there's lots of stuff to do. if you're born in 1900, the electrical power grid just got invented, now there's time to build an industry. but now? (most of) all the technology is invented/developed. my honest prediction is that spaceflight is gonna be the last option to grow the economy, because space is (in principle) infinite, if we dare to use it. but apart from that, i don't think that people will have actual jobs (that are actually meaningful, no bullshit jobs, that pay actual wages, that actually improve society by a significant bit).

on the other side, it might be the start of a good time for all the people who don't actually want to work, because that's becoming a possibility, if we can push through the tax reforms to actually give wealth to the people, all of them.

Even republican respondants going down is surprising

Did the question say 'you' or 'we/us'?

it's exactly the same.

the issue is the lack of a social safety net means your prospects of getting ahead if you are born poor are basically non-existence. that wasn't the case in the 1980s though, a poor kid could get into harvard with drive and effort. now, they don't have a much chance of going to a public college. the stats are insanely bad compared to where they were a generation or two ago.

the upper classes in the USA have systematically pulled up the opportunity ladder, and horded it all for themselves for the past 30 years. they have also made it so that talent less lazy children have to do very little to succeed in life, by systematically removing them from having to complete with talented hard working poor kids.

they seem themselves as an aristocracy more and more. the idea of meritocracy is rapidly disappearing.

It's the same, except they expect you to work harder with less time off. And the lack of a social safety net means there's a huge disaffected impoverished underclass, with added discrimination against minorities and undocumented immigrants with no route to citizenship

sincere question - why does your zip code matter in the Netherlands?

The three major groups of minorities are the emancipated black children of slavery, immigrants, and various natives.

For black people, even if equality hasn't been achieved, there was a rather large increase in quality of life for the overall community, even if it wasn't a uniform increase.

For immigrants, a lot of immigrants were able to improve their quality of life both within their generation and beyond to their next generation.

For various native groups, they are a rounding error compared to the first two groups.

Yes.

Hunger, suffering, death, etc