James Endres Howell<p>Class is funny. One of the guys I play DnD with grew up on the other side of Cleveland from me.</p><p>We were sitting down and getting out notebooks and dice and I said "Hey, I was in Parma last weekend for a wedding. Right behind the old Armory." He goes "Oh, yeah."</p><p>The other two guys thought I went to Italy for the weekend.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/socioeconomic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socioeconomic</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/class" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>class</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/upwardmobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>upwardmobility</span></a></p>
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Charlie McHenry<p>2/ 🧵When I was younger, the phrase ‘upward mobility’ was a key part of any economic talk or policy. Government was focused on providing pathways to prosperity and to the middle class. Poverty was not viewed as permanent. Jobs were plentiful, wages were fair for the time. Now, our leaders, financed by corporate and billionaire dollars, are intent on keeping us down, extracting as much wealth as possible (think subscriptions for everything and rising costs with shrinking packaging) while distracting us with bogus social/cultural war issues and massive <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/Disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disinformation</span></a> campaigns. <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/USPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPOL</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/MiddleClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleClass</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/UpwardMobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UpwardMobility</span></a></p>
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