“People like me have a good chance of improving our standard of living” From 75% to 25% in just 20 years
This chart is currently making rounds. I'd like to give a little more insights into the topic by looking at a similar study by pewresearch which looked at many countries from january.
Do you think your children will be better/worse off financially?
My conclusion here is that these kinds of opinion polls are pretty meaningless. They're just a snapshot of how fast the economy grew in the the recent past. The past. Not the future. Poland, Bangladesh, India ... just the fast growers of the last decade.