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This is just more proof that a federalized society is untenable. The wealth of the elders is due to many years of printing money. Of course tacit ageism again
by yesUgotit 4y ago
This is just more proof that a federalized society is untenable.
The wealth of the elders is due to many years of printing money.
Of course tacit ageism against the youth to protect old people who cannot do the work of keeping themselves alive is perfectly acceptable.
Everyone everywhere being on the hook to prop up dying people will never be an equitable system.
Deference to the past needs to go. I don’t owe believing other peoples grannies are worth the value printed on government totems of power (coins) and private bank statements (scripture of power with no real power if we don’t accept their validity).
It’s hilarious anti-government types are perfectly accepting of their spreading the gospel of the dollar; that somehow is not government conspiracy to co-opt agency.
Cancel the past. Their spoken traditions need not be ours.
- clavalle 4y agoThen again, all the stuff people put together in the past is pretty convenient. Maybe we should consider keeping the good stuff.
- tsukikage 4y agoCan you expand a little more on how having young students owe money to old people's pension funds instead of just forgiving those debts helps combat "the wealth of elders"?
- pointIsThus 4y ago
- pdntspa 4y agoThis makes very little sense. Kind of ironic that there is a sarcastic complaint against ageism when this seem to be quite ageist itself. Are you saying we should strip old people of political power? Bring back death panels? Flowery wording is fun (I use it a lot myself) but brevity is also the soul of wit. Speak clearly and unambiguously!
- krapp 4y ago>Bring back death panels? Death panels were never a thing. That was just Republican propaganda.
- pdntspa 4y agoThe idea of them was a thing. Which is what I am referring to.
- tsukikage 4y agoIt occurs to me I see this term bandied around, but I've never actually seen it defined. Perhaps I'm too young, idk. Is it the thing when you need a medical treatment to live but a panel of accountants working for your employer's health insurer decides they won't fund it? Or is it the thing where you need insulin to live but a panel of businessmen from a cartel of companies all agree to charge multiples of your daily wage per day for it? Or are we talking about something else? Could you explain what you mean by "death panels"?
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- ur-whale 4y ago> a federalized society is untenable. Just to make sure: what is your definition of "a federalized society"? Also, what would you suggest in its stead?