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This reminds me of people from a certain generation who say "You'll be more conservative as you get older!" which happened to them because they accrued wealth a
by PickledHotdog 5y ago
This reminds me of people from a certain generation who say "You'll be more conservative as you get older!" which happened to them because they accrued wealth and assets and (somewhat naturally) want to protect them.
But when you can't accrue wealth or assets (for all of the reasons other posters have listed above), you probably don't end up becoming more conservative as you get older. Quite the opposite.
You're trying to tell us the rules for a game that no longer exists in the way you played it
- NoGravitas 5y agoYep. I'm pushing 50, and over the last 20 years, I've gone from being a progressive liberal to a Marxist-Leninist. You don't get more conservative as you get older, you get more conservative as you get wealthier.
- sigmaprimus 5y ago[flagged]
- NoGravitas 5y agoI'll simply quote Norman Mailer here: "I don’t care if people call me a radical, a rebel, a red, a revolutionary, an outsider, an outlaw, a Bolshevik, an anarchist, a nihilist, or even a left conservative, but please don’t ever call me a liberal."
- sigmaprimus 5y ago[flagged]