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“You will be more conservative as you grow older” (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 112 points 2 years ago (6 children)

You can only get more conservative when you have things to protect like a house and a pension.

Most millennials retirement plan atm is die of heatstroke in 150 degree weather in a 8 person shared apartment in Alaska.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Or you'll get more communist when you have people to protect, like children or friends who start getting sick now that they're not young anymore

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    I became a socialist because I was an "essential employee" during the height of the pandemic. I was treated like shit by my company, the customers, and the government while they sung my praise. I watched my grandpa get good cancer treatment with the VA (shocker, I know, but it happens) while my sister and grandma had to fight insurance for cancer treatment.

    We can't make a perfect world, but we can make a better one. And it starts with a socialist economy.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I became much more progressive after living in a “blue state” for much of my adult life. It’s hard to miss that the most successful economies in the us are also the ones who pay most attention to quality of life. We can look at the contrast in our neighboring states, and see the advantages brought by near universal healthcare, investments in an excellent education system, care about the environment, higher minimum wage, support for unions, and so much more

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you're referring to Nordic Social Democracies, they fund their safety nets via Imperialism, they can't exist without impoverishing and exploiting the Global South. It's the epitome of the Labor Aristocracy.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    No, sorry,I was being us-centric - it seemed like that’s where the thread was.

    As one very specific example, when COViD funding for school lunches ended, some us states decided to no longer provide free school lunches. Massachusetts passed a “millionaire tax” and funded free school lunches out of that

    As a slightly older example, Massachusetts passed effectively universal healthcare coverage, signed into law by governor Mitt Romney, and later served as the model for the Affordable Care Act

    Looking at school system ratings by us state, I see what looks like a strong correlation between excellent schools and a stronger economy.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    You can only get more conservative when you have things to protect like a house and a pension.

    In aggragate, that's the more reliable way to make a population more conservative, but remember that a reasonable portion of fascists in a society that is going in that direction are going to be people who either lost that or never had it and, in either case, blame some minority for that fact. (The majority are still people like you describe, though, the petite bourgeois, etc., who feel insecure in their holdings)

    I agree if you mean neoliberal-conservative

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