Comment on where are worker rights parades? why are we focusing on very limited issues?
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Toxic individualism has killed any sense of social responsibility Americans ever had.
Comment on where are worker rights parades? why are we focusing on very limited issues?
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Toxic individualism has killed any sense of social responsibility Americans ever had.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 10 months ago
People feel no social obligation because they no longer feel connected to anything. Membership in civic institutions and community organizations has fallen off a cliff. Urban planning has turned suburbs from walkable mixed-use communities into car-centric ghost towns. Rampant inflation and cost disease have destroyed affordability for many. Homeowners have become some of the worst ladder-pullers with extreme NIMBYism slowing housing construction to a crawl.