S)T in the News: Divided by Class
Image: BeketChai (Flickr)Social Technologies' Josh Calder spoke recently to Elisabeth Braw, a reporter for the Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan, about poll results that revealed that more Americans feel their society is divided by class.
"Increasingly, more are feeling they are on the losing end of that divide," Calder notes.
He told Braw:
"The American mentality is that everybody is middle class and you lift yourself up through hard work, so these results are striking ... The division into 'haves' and 'have-nots' is a psychological phenomenon, but sometimes the loss they are feeling is very real, by the standard of a modern society."
Read the entire article (if you can read Swedish).
Hope Katz Gibbs
in North America, Economics, Press, Politics
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