I'm not saying conservative politics of the older generation aren't a problem but the core issue is not boomers, the core issue is billionaires.
Don't let the corporate media distract you with idiotic boomer vs millennial nonsense. There are plenty of progressive boomers. There are tons conservative millennials. The enemy isn't demographic, it's economic.
Let me think for a second...which generation's economic policies and political beliefs created the billionaires?
It doesn't matter. Stupid rage articles about evil boomers aren't going to change anything. It's a distraction. Yet another way to keep us fighting each other instead of the real enemy.
Play the numbers game how you see fit.
Seems easier to corral the under 50 vote in the same direction.
Quite a few since the late 1800's, if we are ignoring the specifics of "billionaire" and just focusing on people who have the most significant portion of the wealth. Rockefeller and Carnegie weren't any different a hundred years ago, despite them not being billionaires in their day.
People often completely disregard the value of money. (Mostly when it comes to our wages...)
Sure it's not a billion when referring to the old barons, but the purchasing power they held was still equivalent to billionaires of today.
Rockefeller and Walton?
The silent generation and "greatest" generation, because they elected Nixon.
Our only power is voting.
The problem is billionaires supported by politicians.
Don't let the corporate media distract you with idiotic "billionaire vs. everyone" nonsense. The enemy isn't economic it's political.
And political problems are demographic at the moment, whether or attacking them that way works or not is a different question.
It might be fun to fix if they'd actually fucking let us fix it instead of doing that self mummification shit on their seats of power
Reminds me of those craigslist posts in the Free section:
FREE WOOD
I need a tree cut down on my property and for whatever reason I can't or won't afford a professional so I need someone to come do it for free.
The bonus is you get to keep all the wood, after you've done all the backbreaking work of removing this tree from my property that I obviously want or need gone but not enough to actually invest anything in it myself. Nope, I'm hoping that you're such a poor sack that just the wood will be enough to satiate you instead of any pay for the labor to get the job done.
Depending on the wood this is 100% worth it.
Seriously, my dad has trees worth $10k
Yeah, my dad and I would actually take them up on these offers. Win-win. I imagine you haven't looked at wood prices in a while. Even firewood is expensive. We'd turn some of them into boards (walnut, in particular), and get plenty of winter fuel with the rest.
It's the only reason I have a chain saw.... There's not an abundance of hardwood where I live, so anytime there's a bad freeze I'll look through posts on Craigslist or the neighborhood app.
If I had the space cure it (and a house of my own...), I would snap up the opportunity for some good hardwood.
I'm lucky enough to be next to a co-opt mill that will oven cure lumber and saw it out for a portion of the final product.
That's awesome! Out of curiosity, where is this mecca of cooperation?
Oddly enough it's in Oklahoma.
If you hyper focus on the short-term gains enough, there won't be a long-term to worry about!
I could fix it .....but I'm not ruining my records on that trash ass player.
You are saying you won't get played by a machine that will grind you down?
i have a parent that always wants me or one of my siblings to have their broken shit.
i always turn it down. my older sibling takes whatever it is and sits on it.
but every time our parent contacts me and complains that my sibling doesn't understand value because they haven't stopped their work, raising their kids, and their personal time to fix something they broke. and of course their stuff is too valuable, broken or whatever, to throw out it is our responsibility to want their garbage.
it was for our parent's 10 year old broken laptop last time.
I think this is mostly just because stuff used to be valuable but now is not, because of advances in automation and production, and people who grew up in the old paradigm can't wrap their heads around it. You can buy a radio for the cost of a single meal at a restaurant. You can buy a washer and dryer for the cost of one month's rent. Time and space is expensive, possessions are cheap, but it used to be the other way around.
Narrator: It would not turn out to be fun.
In the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood (San Francisco) it was routine to leave reusable materials, from old cookware and clothes to scrap wood (because anything would be picked apart in a day or so). The problem is old CRT monitors were too tempting to kick in, so I learned to put a works! label or no red scan. needs an electrician which appeared to keep electronics intact until claimed.
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