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 I'm reading the post and replies and guessing you're all from the US. Can you please give some insight to a foreigner as to why these political views (& 1st hand experiences on the impact of late stage capitalism), which I've been reading with increasing frequency over what, 10, 15 years? lack a political movement where to converge and consolidate. I mean since both the US electoral system and the Democratic party are obstacles to any change (are they not?)
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@kikebenlloch I think a lot of it is because the rentier class has been exceptionally skilled at giving the opposition just enough to buy them off. The 13th Amendment's allowance of continued slavery, to start with. The National Labor Relations Act. The Affordable Care Act. The true middle class has dwindled to a privileged few, while the majority of working people don't have the luxury to look beyond their daily grind.
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