stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net to solarpunk memes@slrpnk.net · 4 months agoif you're not free to become poor, homeless, and starving, are you really free?slrpnk.netexternal-linkmessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up1306arrow-down184
arrow-up1222arrow-down1external-linkif you're not free to become poor, homeless, and starving, are you really free?slrpnk.netstabby_cicada@slrpnk.net to solarpunk memes@slrpnk.net · 4 months agomessage-square37fedilink
minus-squareZorque@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32arrow-down3·4 months agoIt also helps to not have a brutal dictatorship in charge. Thankfully we only have a plutocracy!
minus-squareEtterra@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 months agoIsn’t it more of a corporate geritocracy?
minus-squareZorque@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoOnly in that those with money tend to be older, as they’ve had longer to accumulate wealth. Age is only a secondary consideration to money. Plenty of old people are getting just as squeezed as everyone else, just with less recourse.
It also helps to not have a brutal dictatorship in charge.
Thankfully we only have a plutocracy!
Isn’t it more of a corporate geritocracy?
Only in that those with money tend to be older, as they’ve had longer to accumulate wealth.
Age is only a secondary consideration to money. Plenty of old people are getting just as squeezed as everyone else, just with less recourse.