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Anti communists: "You will become more conservative after you grow up" (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml to c/memes@lemmygrad.ml

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This is what my anti communist mom and father-in-law have been telling me. 😂

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[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The assumption previous generations made is that as you get older you will gain more wealth and assets, and so you become more conservative from a desire to protect that wealth.

Except with late-stage capitalism people just stay poor for their entire lives, so this never happens.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 4 months ago

Then they die and the eight people who survive their 55th birthday are the conservatives with acres and acres.