I hope that maybe collecting signatures could make politicians in position that they can not simply refuse changing the law, like with affordable rent initiative right-to-housing.eu I mean if they would collect the 1 mln of signatures, it would be hard to just ignore it
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daannii@lemmy.world 3 days agoYes social security in the U.S is a specific tax that only goes to social security. Or at least that’s how it’s supposed to work but lately there has been talk of using it for the war. Which shouldn’t be allowed.
I think it’s pretty obvious to anyone that billionaires hoarding wealth and capitalism greed has gotten us where we are.
It’s silly to blame older generations that had it better for the decline.
They have as much control over all of this as I do right now. Which is very little.
Profit and production per person has been increasing for as long as it’s been recorded. Yet wages have not came close to matching inflation.
Why is that? Did boomers as a group some how orchestrate a decline in wages?
No.
That’s thanks to corporations paying off politicians and making sure no laws would pass to force them to pay people a living wage. No laws would pass to restrict increases in college education. No laws would pass to keep rent affordable.
Didn’t matter who you voted for. There have been plenty of Dems and Republicans in control at various times in the last 50 years. And yet. No laws were passed to help the people. Only create tax loop holes for the rich.
Because the rich pay off the politicians.
These problems are not from boomers existing at a time before it got bad.
It’s true many billionaires are boomers but there are many that aren’t that are the richest. Bezos isn’t. Musk isn’t.
2pNza@lemmy.world 2 days ago
daannii@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They ignore such things all the time.
There have been many instances here of people voting to pass a bill and then the governor just vetoes it.
I think we need to change things so that votes outrank what any politicians want.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Well, it seems that the US has one of the best systems for retirement in the world then.
The total net worth of all billionaires in the US is actually a bit less than the total value of all 401ks alone, ignoring other forms of retirement and savings funds. When things are done “for the shareholders”, what makes you think that it’s only the billionaires? Retirement by definition benefits from the next generations being held down by low wages to benefit the corporations you’re invested in. Boomers, or at least the selfish ones, have a tendency to vote republican because their interests align with billionaires’ interests.
But both the net worth of billionaires and total value of 401ks pale in comparison to the total net worth of baby boomers in total.
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In a few decades it’ll be Gen X and then millennials. As a millennial I hope my generation doesn’t take the same hard right turn once we’re in charge of the economy, but that’s like 30-40 years from now and who knows how jaded millennials will have become by then. Luckily we won’t get as many decades in charge as the boomers have had.
2pNza@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They will be gen X and millennials if bommers will transfer the wealth to them. But there is possibility that they will just sell everything and big corporation will buy it. Like with agricultural land in US. Some land is not longer in hands of private people but in corporation owners hands. (Like in feudalism, by the way there is even term tech feudalism: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technofeudalism) Bill Gates is doung it already (…yahoo.com/…/bill-gates-finally-explains-why-1949…)
daannii@lemmy.world 3 days ago
This is not evidence that boomers stole your money.
It’s just evidence that companies have been exploiting people to greater levels over time.
Boomers had as much power to shape the economy as you and I have right now.
Do you really think that the people paying off politicians to pass laws or hinder laws to increase their profits is blameless ?
Blaming boomers is akin to blaming immigrants. Or women. Or disabled people for the reason that companies won’t pay their employees what they should.
It’s scapegoating propaganda.
Billionaires don’t want you looking their direction so they constantly are trying to find a new group to point the finger at.
They own all the mainstream media which is also pushing this narrative.
It’s not the exploitive hoarding billionaire controlling your politicians making your life harder. No. Couldn’t be.
It’s the older generation who have a little bit more than you have. Yeah. Fuck old people. How dare they not due already ?
2pNza@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They have right to live like everyone else, it is not about that. I just don’t understand why they don’t see any issues with billionaires as we do. Why they dont care about that? Maybe they are not informed as good as they should be. Maybe there should be an initiative “Inform a boomer” or a board game for them “younger generations” were you will always loose because of the billionaires, to create space for discussion. Idk just kidding about that but I don’t understand why they don’t care
daannii@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah there is definitely an issue there. Many don’t seem to realize times have changed.
“I worked part time during the summer and put myself through college. These newer generations just want everything handed to them”.
No realizing tuition is 30k-50k a year.
“I was able to buy a house at 25, working as a clerk at a feed store”?
Not realizing that working full time for minimum wage isn’t even enough to afford an apartment on your own anymore.
I think many don’t realize how much income-to-expenses has changed.
And seen to not realize that without a college degree, it’s unlikely you can find much work that pays more than minimum wage. And even that is generally only for men doing physically demanding jobs which have long term health consequences.
So it’s either take on a huge amount of debt for a chance at a slightly better job pay and security, or stay in poverty forever.