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In 2016, 67% of Americans agreed that most people can get ahead if they were willing to work hard. Today, it's 47% (thelemmy.club)
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[-] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Yes, I was assuming people would be aware of that much on their own when I made a silly

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