Comment on A modest proposal

modestmeme@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You skipped Gen X. Typical.

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  • modestmeme@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Gen X owes you nothing

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    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Slacker.

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      • MTZ@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Lmaooo

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• Turret3857@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • modestmeme@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve heard stats presented that way all my life, usually in terms of “immigrants”, “Jews”, “Catholics” , etc. You want to look up some stats? Look at voter turnout amongst young people. Or the population of the United States vs available land, 1960’s to present. Or look up post war economic booms and how they affect things.

    Here we are, with decades of low voter turnout, a waning economy that is completely gamed not by an age group but by the wealthy, and too many people to allow the old ways of “growth” to work anymore.

    And somehow amidst that we’ve decided that part of our very identity is the range of years in which we were born. Who decided what a boomer or millennial or gen X/Z/Alpha is? Was it a consensus amongst social scientists? Or was it something more useful for marketing strategy?

    I reject your comment outright. Everything you said was perpetuated (or not) by the entirety of people living in that/this time. We are all part of this world and othering a group of people, i.e. scapegoating others does jackshit for solving our problems.

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    • Turret3857@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • modestmeme@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I said none of that. And the older generation “not standing up to this shit”? Quite a few did. And quite a few in previous generations did as well.

        And quite a few people from whatever “generation” you fancy yourself a member also work for a better world.

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