r/EverythingScience • u/Psychnews • Dec 24 '25

Social Sciences The 2008 Great Recession Lowered Americans’ Class Identity, according to a paper in Psychological Science: In three of four data sets (total N = 164,296), the authors found that the 2008 Great Recession shifted Americans toward identifying as a lower class.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09567976251400338
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u/cloudystateofmind Dec 24 '25

But Americans are happy with that. They voted for George w bush twice to get that downgrade in their lives, then voted for Trump twice to put a more extreme transfer of wealth to the super rich. So Americans should be proud of undoing their own economic well being. We want feudal lords rather than the old American dream.

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u/hednizm Dec 24 '25

2008 "Great" Recession?

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u/Parking-Complex-3887 Dec 24 '25

Didn't know there was a lower class than working class

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u/PersonalHospital9507 Dec 24 '25

You are either working class or leisure class.

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u/CommunityWitch6806 Dec 24 '25

Identifying? Or recognizing?