Socioeconomic Class,Family Size, & Attitude Towards Success & Wealth

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   gmwilliamsposted 3 years ago

   
   One's attitude towards education, success, & wealth is influenced by one's socioeconomic class of birth, family size one is born into, not to mention familial environment.  Those in the underclass, lower, working, & lower middle classes & in larger families tend to have negative attitudes towards education, success, & socioeconomic improvement.  They don't value education, success & socioeconomic improvement.  Such things are anathema to people in the 4 lower socioeconomic classes.  They also teach their children not to better nor improve themselves.
   
   Conversely, those who are solidly middle, upper middle, & upper class imbue their children with the importance of education & achievement. In fact, in the three affluent socioeconomic classes, education & self-improvement are paramount. Agree?  Disagree?
   

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      MizBejabbersposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      I think it depends on the times. I don't know how old your are, Grace, but my parents went through the Great Depression. They both came from solid middle-class farming families, and they and their siblings were forced off the farm and went to work in cities. Well, not my mother, it was her father who was the intellectual who moved to town and became a professional. Then WWII happened. During the 1950s  opportunity opened up and welcomed even the most poverty stricken. We were poor, all of us, but most of us were middle class. However, in my lifetime, I saw poverty stricken children from low-class families with little-educated parents rise above their so-called predestined station in life. One boy in particular became an executive at a major automobile corporation, and he and his wife became world travelers. Even as late as the early 60s, I saw people the town considered riff raff become business owners and city and county executives. They got educated and made money. Today their families are comfortable upper middle class families in the Ozarks. Times were different then.
      I believe that today we have used up our opportunities and our resources. We depend on recycling what we have, including iron and steel, but wood decays with age. Wood is so scarce that I'm hearing upper middle class people complain that they can't build or buy new houses. Hey, if the HAVES can't have anymore, what do you expect from the HAVE-NOTS? How can we expect the have nots to keep the American dream alive when their very existence is a nightmare.
      Perhaps we've brought this on ourselves. Every day we see new homes being built that, just 30 years later turn into slums as these original people move on to more new homes. More forests are depleted, aquifers are being sucked dry, sewage is being dumped into rivers -- maybe the poor see this before their "betters" do and have a better understanding of the situation. Or am I being too pessimistic?

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