• PeleSpirit@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    If you’re going to go by all of your generalizations, then you have to understand that the young don’t vote, that’s why the old make such a difference. If the young voted, we would have a different world.

    But again, the corporations and lack of power for the common people (union busting, price-fixing wages, taking away rights, etc.) are what’s killing all generations.

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      10 months ago

      If you’re going to go by all of your generalizations, then you have to understand that the young don’t vote, that’s why the old make such a difference

      Ahh if only it was someone’s responsibility to educate younger generations on the importance of voting…

      corporations and lack of power for the common people (union busting, price-fixing wages, taking away rights, etc.) are what’s killing all generations.

      Right, but you’re pretending that all this occurred in a vacuum? Did the corporations vote to elect the people who led the attacks on unions? Did corporations vote to elect the politicians who allowed taking away our rights?

      These didn’t all happen at once, that generation decided these were ideas that would benefit themselves. And it did, they lived through the most economically prosperous times in America and got to retire before all their greed came crashing down around them.

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        10 months ago

        Seriously, you’re sticking up for the corporations and ultra rich who use extreme propaganda to influence everyone? My generation was lucky to escape that because we’re ignored, that’s why we see what a con this all is to divide the two largest generations.

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          Seriously, you’re sticking up for the corporations and ultra rich who use extreme propaganda to influence everyone?

          And who owns and operates those corporations?

          You are operating under a false dichotomy, it’s not an either or situation. Yes corporations are negatively impacting our society, but that doesn’t negate the fact that the lion’s share of the profit created by those companies are going directly into a boomers pocket.

          We are arguing about the cultural and ethical beliefs of generations. Bringing up corporations doesn’t inherently mean anything without context, and with context it doesn’t really improve your argument.

          The elderly inherently share more blame for the status quo because they’ve had the most time to influence the status quo.

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            10 months ago

            So every boomer makes every decision at these huge corporations? You don’t even make sense. Have you talked to any dude just out of finance in college? They’re not trying to help their generation, lol. They’re trying to take the next dude for a ride, and so it has ever been.