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Originally Posted by I.C.Isles
Not sure if it is that much more extreme. Definitely much more visible with social media and advertising.
Growing up I didn’t know what I was missing. Now it is thrown in your face every minute of every day. Grew up in a small house with one car and one black and white tv. Thought we had it made even though others had bigger house, two cars and color tvs.
Too many people no longer thankful for what they have, they are envious of what they don’t have.
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I agree on envy and social media, and I guess "extreme" is in the eye of the beholder, but we can all see a huge number of hugely expensive homes on and around the lake that were not there a generation ago. That's a lot of people looking for a nice dinner or fancy club.
On general inequality, there are a slew of measures to choose from--here's a good piece that has a bunch of them. It also describes the shrinking middle with a "small house..."
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-t...th-inequality/