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umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 hours agoso you are against reducing work hours? humans are not made to work so hard, but you can work more if you want to while also supporting other people to have that choice.
you are talking about doctors, who are notoriously well paid and privileged. things don’t usually go that well for everyone else, and we don’t get to choose how much work we put in nor if our pay matches expenses. as i said, its rare to even be able to save.
we also have many meaningful movements to do all of that on the left, but like any grassroots movement, it isn’t financed by big capital and needs people’s support and participation.
Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
Belgium’s population grew from 9 to 12 million in 65 years. My wife’s country Indonesia grew from 80 to 280 million people in 65 years.
Median net wealth of Belgian is 250k euros and in Indonesia it’s 5k euros.
Your perspective is the one that needs to be expanded.
Belgians don’t want kids because they don’t believe in a god. They have pensions even though they don’t have kids.
In Indonesia they are extremely religious, so they think having kids is important. They don’t have meaningful pensions, so they need kids to survive.
You’re quite mistaken.
We don’t have kids because we are financially rewarded to not have kids. I vote against pensions for this reason.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
you… vote against pensions…? honestly if you have that attitude and are in belgium you are the problem. i’m guessing the political parties that want to “cut costs” in belgium of all places are very fascist-adjacent.
all i can say is stop exploiting the third world for your privilege, because we will soon shake the imperial influence off and its not gonna look pretty for your economy.
Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
Our economy will be fine, it depends on education mostly
umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
hahahah k, is that why europe is starting to resort to fascism?