[lbo-talk] Pew Research Center: "Rising Share of Americans See Conflict Between Rich and Poor"

Wojtek S wsoko52 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 13 08:30:17 PST 2012


On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 4:53 AM, Julio Huato <juliohuato at gmail.com> wrote:
> They call it "conflict" only when the poor fight back:
>
> http://bit.ly/wEsltw

[WS:] Not only that, other findings include no changing attitudes toward the rich (see below). So I would not hold my breath.

"While the survey results show a significant shift in public perceptions of class conflict in American life, they do not necessarily signal an increase in grievances toward the wealthy. It is possible that individuals who see more conflict between the classes think that anger toward the rich is misdirected. Nor do these data suggest growing support for government measures to reduce income inequality.

In fact, other questions in the survey show that some key attitudes toward the wealthy have remained largely unchanged. For example, there has been no change in views about whether the rich became wealthy through personal effort or because they were fortunate enough to be from wealthy families or have the right connections.

A 46% plurality believes that most rich people “are wealthy mainly because they know the right people or were born into wealthy families.” But nearly as many have a more favorable view of the rich: 43% say wealthy people became rich “mainly because of their own hard work, ambition or education,” largely unchanged from a Pew survey in 2008."

-- Wojtek http://wsokol.blogspot.com/



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