I’d like to send a special “fuck you buddy” to all the boomers that told me “oh you’ll get more conservative as you get older, once you get some money”
I don’t know what world those people live in, but every day since probably 1989 everything I have seen in the world has only convinced me more and more that capitalism is a disease that is destroying lives and the planet.
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@cobweb @msbw I think one reason is most of us didn't, like them, get more money.
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@corbden I worked a long time for people who mostly had a whole lot of money. A whole lot of them in the younger gen X and down expressed the same sentiment, and since part of my job entailed supervising that their donations got done, I can at least attest they put some money where their mouths were.
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@corbden The more I think about this (apparent, from my anecdata) generational disparity, the more I think it's that the gap between haves and have-nots in the Boomer generation was largely set along demographic lines; they could effectively rely on whatever privilege they started with holding out & didn't mingle beyond it. Whereas late X-onward, post-Reagan, it became clear meritocracy was a lie as social groups mixed, & we accepted "minorities" (incl. women) "should" succeed. @cobweb @msbw
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@cwicseolfor We were literally the first post-segregationist, post-civil rights act generation in the US. Every generation after that has been exposed to more diversity. That's why they destroyed the public school system starting in our generation.
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@corbden THAT THAT THAT. (I'm a middle millennial, though. Talk about a K-shaped trajectory. With the bottom leg sticking wayyyyy out beyond the top one.) @cobweb @msbw
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@cwicseolfor @corbden @cobweb boomers really pulled the ladder up behind them.
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@msbw @cwicseolfor @corbden @cobweb You seem to have been easily fooled into blaming anyone but the political elites . There are plenty of oldies who, despite ridicule, were the thread of sanity which survived through the Reagan/Thatcher era and beyond. But never mind, the generation after yours will have its own easily fooled contingent which will blame your generation for energy and water sucking AI and data centres.
For God’s sake do some of your own thinking.
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@Jeffrey @msbw @cwicseolfor @cobweb Both are true and ultimately blame rests with those who have the most power to change things and those who have shaped opinion in their service (billionaires, at this stage). But those in the middle of the power structure (including myself) do need to look at our own actions that brought us here. Otherwise we can't change them.
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@Jeffrey @msbw @cwicseolfor @cobweb (Witchzilla is one of the most thoughtful people I follow on here.)
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