A Cool Dude@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 month ago“You will be more conservative as you grow older”lemmy.mlimagemessage-square220fedilinkarrow-up11.06Karrow-down166
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minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 month agoIn the mid 20th-century, people reliably got more petty bourgeois as they got older. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379422000452
minus-squareCowbee [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up15·1 month agoYep, correlation, not causation. Getting older doesn’t cause it.
minus-squareEldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up12·1 month agoThere’s a much better correlation between wealth and conservatism than age. Almost like those who begin to benefit from the system of oppression are incentivesed to keep it going.
In the mid 20th-century, people reliably got more petty bourgeois as they got older.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379422000452
Yep, correlation, not causation. Getting older doesn’t cause it.
There’s a much better correlation between wealth and conservatism than age. Almost like those who begin to benefit from the system of oppression are incentivesed to keep it going.