So just to clarify why I posted this here, I thought this attitude towards economic opportunity was a given. The fact that older generations are much more optimistic I think says a TON about how this unequal economy ever materialized in the first place. 🤷🏽♀️
Juan_de_Silentio on
I think the biggest takeaway is that of all the countries surveyed, the US had the largest gap between how younger and how older people felt. Like in China for example both groups were fairly pessimistic, and in some other countries both groups were more optimistic. The variance here in the US is really historically unusual.
Ghostrider556 on
I think a lot is still that the stock market is soaring which overall is making a lot of the older generation feel very optimistic. Imo its really actually quite concerning because its so far out of line with the greater economy as well as historical averages leading me to feel like its a massive ponzi scheme and entrenching insane inequality but they don’t seem to think so. Also if businesses are actually doing that well I feel like they should hiring aggressively but of course we don’t see that happening at all
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So just to clarify why I posted this here, I thought this attitude towards economic opportunity was a given. The fact that older generations are much more optimistic I think says a TON about how this unequal economy ever materialized in the first place. 🤷🏽♀️
I think the biggest takeaway is that of all the countries surveyed, the US had the largest gap between how younger and how older people felt. Like in China for example both groups were fairly pessimistic, and in some other countries both groups were more optimistic. The variance here in the US is really historically unusual.
I think a lot is still that the stock market is soaring which overall is making a lot of the older generation feel very optimistic. Imo its really actually quite concerning because its so far out of line with the greater economy as well as historical averages leading me to feel like its a massive ponzi scheme and entrenching insane inequality but they don’t seem to think so. Also if businesses are actually doing that well I feel like they should hiring aggressively but of course we don’t see that happening at all