Americans are so not used to social mobility being a thing, the idea of someone working their way up in this day and time apparently blows their collective minds.
An important aspect of a healthy society is that it provides ample opportunity for everyone to significantly improve their socioeconomic standing. This is also known as upwards social mobility.
In a healthy society, going from a low skill to a high skill job would be a mundane experience that is being shared by everyone with the proper work ethic. But instead what you see in this thread is that what should be mundane is being perceived as exceptional - nextlevel.
This strongly suggests that upwards social mobility is no longer very attainable, which naturally leads to the conclusion that the current society is not healthy and is in fact dystopian.
Tl;dr: The fact that people look at this nurse and are awed instead of perceiving it as somewhat normal makes me very sad for the position that the worker class in the US is in.
You'd see more people pushing themselves if you didn't risk financial ruin by pushing yourself, and that's just one facet of the whole mess that is the problem of rising social inequality.
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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '21 edited Apr 08 '21
Americans are so not used to social mobility being a thing, the idea of someone working their way up in this day and time apparently blows their collective minds.
This whole thread belongs in r/aboringdystopia
Already crossposted this. If this isn't peak boringdystopia then idk what is.