▲ 204 ▼ Don't Worry About Retirement, Millennials (thelemmy.club) submitted 4 days ago by GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works to c/noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works 32 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51310194
[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago (1 child) They do, I’d say most countries do to varying extents permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kibblebits@quokk.au 11 points 4 days ago (1 child) So now you understand my confusion when the top comment points to this being a western issue, as if one half of the world somehow has no problems. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 1 point 4 days ago (1 child) I was just responding to the ask of what’s wrong with Canada and Chile Edit: I also do think the US bears more responsibility (as do other recent western colonial powers, even if they have already waned). The imperialism of the west has been a major driver of actions against indigenous populations and land reform that was having political success at home. But that threatens shareholder value, so we’ll coup that administration, install a new right wing dictator, sure it’ll be uncomfortable a few decades later when it’s reported how death squads gunned down workers at a bottling plant trying to unionize, but it’ll be time to move on by then to heal, don’t want to make the middle class Americans too sad, and anyways, media will have largely consolidated into billionaire owned conglomerates by then and we can spin the narrative however we want permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kibblebits@quokk.au 2 points 4 days ago (1 child) Silly. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 2 points 4 days ago Sure permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kibblebits@quokk.au 11 points 4 days ago (1 child) So now you understand my confusion when the top comment points to this being a western issue, as if one half of the world somehow has no problems. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 1 point 4 days ago (1 child) I was just responding to the ask of what’s wrong with Canada and Chile Edit: I also do think the US bears more responsibility (as do other recent western colonial powers, even if they have already waned). The imperialism of the west has been a major driver of actions against indigenous populations and land reform that was having political success at home. But that threatens shareholder value, so we’ll coup that administration, install a new right wing dictator, sure it’ll be uncomfortable a few decades later when it’s reported how death squads gunned down workers at a bottling plant trying to unionize, but it’ll be time to move on by then to heal, don’t want to make the middle class Americans too sad, and anyways, media will have largely consolidated into billionaire owned conglomerates by then and we can spin the narrative however we want permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kibblebits@quokk.au 2 points 4 days ago (1 child) Silly. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 2 points 4 days ago Sure permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 1 point 4 days ago (1 child) I was just responding to the ask of what’s wrong with Canada and Chile Edit: I also do think the US bears more responsibility (as do other recent western colonial powers, even if they have already waned). The imperialism of the west has been a major driver of actions against indigenous populations and land reform that was having political success at home. But that threatens shareholder value, so we’ll coup that administration, install a new right wing dictator, sure it’ll be uncomfortable a few decades later when it’s reported how death squads gunned down workers at a bottling plant trying to unionize, but it’ll be time to move on by then to heal, don’t want to make the middle class Americans too sad, and anyways, media will have largely consolidated into billionaire owned conglomerates by then and we can spin the narrative however we want permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kibblebits@quokk.au 2 points 4 days ago (1 child) Silly. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 2 points 4 days ago Sure permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kibblebits@quokk.au 2 points 4 days ago (1 child) Silly. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 2 points 4 days ago Sure permalink fedilink source parent