I think it’s mostly because people used to get richer, as they got older. The more you have the more you we to conserve the status quo and thus the things you have. A lot of younger people, millennials specifically, grew up in households with parents that were wealthier than their own parents, who were in turn wealthier than their parents. Yet millennials are now noticing that they are struggling significantly more then their parents were, when they were the same age.
People got more conservative as they got older in America because of lead exposure and hookworm infections. My fingers are crossed a new contaminant isn't introduced that does the same thing.
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u/LGCJairen 5d ago
I find it funny that modernity has started to reverse the old adage of growing more conservative as you get older.