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That makes sense on the surface, but often times it’s not the case. Turns out in a democracy where everyone thinks only of themselves the older and more numerou

That makes sense on the surface, but often times it’s not the case. Turns out in a democracy where everyone thinks only of themselves the older and more numerous generations vote for their own pensions and protections and stiff the younger generations.

qzw 4y ago
People always only think of themselves, democracy or not. That's been true since the dawn of time. That's why I said the younger generations will need to overcome some of the institutional barriers. Nothing is going to be just handed to them.
- 6510 4y ago
  This is incorrect, it is a cultural phenomenon. There has always been a balance between doing constructive things for others depending on how close they are socially and caring for themselves. You have all the emotions, you know how it works. There are tribes where no one cares who gave birth to the kids. We did countless wars and profited at the expense of others but if you fail to account for the soldiers moral it kinda not makes sense for them to make the ultimate sacrifice. We had many religions and some political ideologies where selfishness was not just not admired but frowned upon and undesirable. Most of our quality of life comes from previous generations doing the hard work for us, often intentionally. Try starting from scratch on the "only think of myself" principal and you get something nonsensical like Liberland. Almost everything was just handed to you. You got a good hand of cards. Almost nothing was the result of you taking care of you.
29083011397778 4y ago
So do what the boomers did and form unions. Working together, you can collectively demand higher wages, or shit does not get done. This has been proven out in practice to work - that's why the boomers did it in the first place. Is it perfect? No. But it gets you closer to where you want to go instead of bitching about wages being too low, then following it up with American Individualism and Exceptionalism.
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qzw 4y ago

People always only think of themselves, democracy or not. That's been true since the dawn of time. That's why I said the younger generations will need to overcome some of the institutional barriers. Nothing is going to be just handed to them.

6510 4y ago
This is incorrect, it is a cultural phenomenon. There has always been a balance between doing constructive things for others depending on how close they are socially and caring for themselves. You have all the emotions, you know how it works. There are tribes where no one cares who gave birth to the kids. We did countless wars and profited at the expense of others but if you fail to account for the soldiers moral it kinda not makes sense for them to make the ultimate sacrifice. We had many religions and some political ideologies where selfishness was not just not admired but frowned upon and undesirable. Most of our quality of life comes from previous generations doing the hard work for us, often intentionally. Try starting from scratch on the "only think of myself" principal and you get something nonsensical like Liberland. Almost everything was just handed to you. You got a good hand of cards. Almost nothing was the result of you taking care of you.

29083011397778 4y ago

So do what the boomers did and form unions. Working together, you can collectively demand higher wages, or shit does not get done. This has been proven out in practice to work - that's why the boomers did it in the first place. Is it perfect? No. But it gets you closer to where you want to go instead of bitching about wages being too low, then following it up with American Individualism and Exceptionalism.

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