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Originally Posted by chillrob
I don't get what you're saying here. You say I'm ignoring something, but seem to agree with me.
Where are you getting the 87k is poor? Don't understand that comment at all.
not poor, but for a household that's not very much money, that chart conveniently provided by the military to demonstrate it's an army of the people and not of the poors started at the bottom of society and then conveniently cut off the chart around the 70%ish chart, wholly leaving out the upper third of Americans
it's absolutely unforgivable to lump in 84k a year household who are cutting coupons and working double shifts in the same socioeconomic status as everyone else
I also would lean heavily that in general, it's the poorest people in their neighborhoods who are enlisting, so by going by neighborhoods instead of parents, they can further mislead to imply that middle class people are signing up, when it's most likely the poor people who live in middle class neighborhoods are signing up
anecdotally, I know a handful of military enlistees from growing up, the 2 from good families went to west point or regular college + rotc -> officer track and the rest were mostly kids living in broken homes, often in trailers, they just signed up primarily because to them, enlisting in the infantry was a better alternative than washing dishes at the local diner and it got them out of the trailer with the alcoholic father - I know I know, limited sample size rife with personal bias, but it tracks with the stereotype