The Spectre@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 3 months ago“You will be more conservative as you grow older”lemmy.mlexternal-linkmessage-square224fedilinkarrow-up11.07Karrow-down169
arrow-up1999arrow-down1external-link“You will be more conservative as you grow older”lemmy.mlThe Spectre@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 3 months agomessage-square224fedilink
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up11·3 months 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-up15·3 months agoYep, correlation, not causation. Getting older doesn’t cause it.
minus-squareEldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up12·3 months 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.