Spectre@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 8 个月前“You will be more conservative as you grow older”lemmy.mlimagemessage-square221fedilinkarrow-up11.07Karrow-down168
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minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up11·8 个月前In 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-up15·8 个月前Yep, correlation, not causation. Getting older doesn’t cause it.
minus-squareEldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up12·8 个月前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.
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.