I’m just getting angrier and more pitchforky as I get older! If my old teachers who said that shit were still alive I’d be shrieking how no, no I did absolutely not get more conservative damn it.
Photuris@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
This is a case of:
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Corporate greed (“we could profit 18 billion and pay our workers a fair wage, or profit 30 billion and give them peanuts and lobby govt. to keep it that way”).
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Tipping culture run amok (“let’s guilt the consumer into paying their wages via tips on top of what we already charge them for the service, rather than simply paying them a wage or salary for their labor to begin with”).
They say you grow more conservative as you age. That’s not happening to me. We need more labor unions.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 6 days ago
notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world 5 days ago
We need more competently run labor unions in NYC. Thank God 1199 just ousted their scumbag thief president.
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 5 days ago
Cuomo is a corrupt parasite who took kick backs to cover up the excess death in retirement communities during covid. Then when he got caught, he go ousted for grabbing ass.... not to downplay sexual harassment but dead people is a felony. And he never even got charged with the harassment, just resigned like nothing happened and already trying to sleeze his way in back into politics.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Someone mentioned “growing more conservative” could mean holding on to the gains, specifically material gains. Like, one of the key contributing factors to the housing crisis is NIMBYism. Plenty of house owners are maybe socially progressive and feel bad about injustice; but many of them, especially old people, vote down proposals to build affordable housing because it affects their property value. If I bought a house for €300k and in thirty years it is now worth €16 million. I would not even mind if the house value depreciates by one or two million, or even ten. What am I even going to do with that much money? If my net worth is six million, that is more than enough for me.
I think when the right say “becoming more conservative” as one grows older, it seems like a coded phrase to mean becoming greedy. And it seems to be the case that could happen to everyone regardless of whether one is left or right when they were younger. Which makes me realise that this is the point Squid Game is making.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
It’s not even that much of a gap. They’ll crush their employees under the weight of dozen elephants if it nets them an extra 5%.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
i’m getting more conservative as i age, in that i want to go further and further back in time. At this point i’m somewhere around late mesopotamian era.