The Simpsons as a Marker of the Demise of Middle-Class America
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Over the last decade, all of us have read a flurry of articles about the slow but certain demise of the American middle-class. While each group of commentators offers different (and often mutually contradictory) explanations for this change, it is obvious that the phenomenon they are all talking about is very real. It is also clear that it started 2-3 decades ago (most likely in the early 1980s) and has been gathering pace since then. Unfortunately most of the well-known explanations for this phenomenon are based in presentation of numbers and statistics- perhaps deliberately, to obscure its real impact. I will take a different approach to show how you how far the American middle-class has really fallen.
The Simpsons as a Marker of the Demise of Middle-Class America
The Simpsons as a Marker of the Demise of…
The Simpsons as a Marker of the Demise of Middle-Class America
Over the last decade, all of us have read a flurry of articles about the slow but certain demise of the American middle-class. While each group of commentators offers different (and often mutually contradictory) explanations for this change, it is obvious that the phenomenon they are all talking about is very real. It is also clear that it started 2-3 decades ago (most likely in the early 1980s) and has been gathering pace since then. Unfortunately most of the well-known explanations for this phenomenon are based in presentation of numbers and statistics- perhaps deliberately, to obscure its real impact. I will take a different approach to show how you how far the American middle-class has really fallen.