Spectre@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago“You will be more conservative as you grow older”lemmy.mlimagemessage-square214linkfedilinkarrow-up1901arrow-down154
arrow-up1847arrow-down1image“You will be more conservative as you grow older”lemmy.mlSpectre@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 years agomessage-square214linkfedilink
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up11·2 years 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/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up15·2 years agoYep, correlation, not causation. Getting older doesn’t cause it.
minus-squareEldritchFemininity@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up12·2 years 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.