Wealth makes people more likely to be conservative, as does age.

The poor young man who recorded Fuck tha Police is a very different person to the multi-millionaire media star being interviewed on Fox.

Early trends for Millenials and young Gen X has them not getting more conservative as they are aging, or at least substantially less so than older generations.

Because they don’t have the same generational wealth.

Before the rents increased too much, I lucked into an old 1930’s era house in a rural town 1 hour away from work with all these lovely features:

• Rotting fiberglass insulation
• ungrounded outlets
• no dishwasher
• a clothesline instead of a dryer
• non-catastrophic plumbing issues
• unfinished drywall on the second floor
• windows with busted opening mechanisms
• gutters with holes rusted through them
• a shitty-ass furnace that cost me $600/mo to heat my house to 60F last year

All for the low-low price of “i can just barely afford the monthly mortgage payment”

But now that I’m a homeowner, I’m considered wealthy these days. Yeah, don’t see myself swinging R anytime soon.

I know this might not be relevant, but American obsession with dryers seems so weird to me lmao. I live in Germany and I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a dryer, even at my rich friends parents house, and them mafakers had a sauna in the basement. Just kinda interesting how they are completely culturally irrelevant in one country, and considered almost a basic necessity in another.

In my part of Canada without a dryer you’d have damp, moldy clothes 9 months a year. I could hang them up inside to dry but I’d be running a dehumidifier beside them. We lived without a dryer for several years but it made laundry an extra pain in the ass and drying was always the bottleneck. No problem in the summer months with the clothesline.

Yeah, I kinda suspected they were very useful/necessary in some parts and just spread to the rest because people move around a lot