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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (301796)8/30/2006 10:55:49 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) of 1576391
 
"but there hasn't been any truly massive shift in the way the economy operates since than."

Sure there has. From the 1970s through much of the 1980s it was still possible to join a company and work your way up. Middle management started to vanish during the 1980s and by the 1990s the job was pretty much complete for many businesses. So there were a lot of jobs where you started in the lowest quintile and within a few years worked your way out of it. There just aren't that many any more. Some of them, like starting as a driver at Domino's and working your way up to manager can still leave you in the lowest quintile. I know about this one from personal experience.
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