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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know, my kids are younger so it's more hypothetical still. But I totally am with you on the growing income inequality thing. I think what that means is that [b]I'm anxious that my children will be emotionally stable, hard working people that will choose a career that will enable them to be on the "right side," even if that's a trade or physical labor based job.[/b] I have seen people in the right schools and neighborhoods get burnt out and crash and burn. We're a legacy at an elite private school that gets fawned over on DCUM and I would never in a million years send my kids there. None of our family that attended turned into happy adults, and it's a very mixed bag whether they even ended up successful on paper. I don't know if I have the right answers, but it is something I worry about. [/quote]

OP here. But this is what I’m afraid of. If my daughter chooses a non UMS white collar position (anything besides doctor, lawyer, engineer, or business person), it’s so unstable and uncertain and could potentially lead to the wrong side of the divide. All the optimism and resilience and perseverance in the world won’t mean shit if my kid is struggling to raise a family in this area on a yearly income of $80k/year.

And for the record, I’ve always supported progressive policies that try to prevent (or at the very least, slow down) this frantic pace. I voted for Bernie in 2016 and 2020. But it’s all still so anxious. Maybe it’s just my trauma from growing up lower middle class though — most of my high school classmates are NOT doing well. Don’t want that for my kids. [/quote]

I dated someone like you once. He talked a good talk about how inequality generally was bad and damaging; it turned out that he was most concerned about coming out on the “right side” of it. Very tedious.[/quote]

Well what else are you supposed to do? Be okay with your kids potentially not having healthcare? (or inadequate healthcare)[/quote]

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