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I guess this is the story of Brexit? The UK shouldn't have allowed people over 50 years old to vote on that referendum, because they aren't likely so see the effects of the decision and they're still delusional about a great empire that can stand alone while they watch American TV shows on a TV made in China and a chair designed in Sweden...
Well I'm American so maybe I should clarify only 10% of the people here even currently get to grasp the American dream and statistically it's white people who get to be homeowners and live in the suburbs and be paranoid and rude to everybody including each other.
We are not doing well everything is falling apart infrastructure wise even in wealthy areas. You better be on the Amazon or Microsoft campus etc if you want it kept up.
Brexit is part of a larger pattern too, we're basically trying to make Europe Asia-exit lol. And in the same way it will benefit Asia long run.
Meanwhile we try to turn you guys into Senegal #2, a source of crude oil to refine, and a market to buy our refined oil! As long as you continue to develop more drilling without refinement it's the only way. Geopolitical economy 🗺️
Just to clarify I'm not American nor British and the situation here is mostly what you describe on that phrase. The European dream died before it even started.
Ah makes sense. Another example. We like completely destroyed German manufacturing with these energy prices in the process of trying to sever the region from Russia lol
I wouldnt say its the energy prices that are destroying German industry (I am German too), but the lack of innovation and way too much bureaucracy (and no, that doesnt mean we should lower emission standards, etc., but we should simplify processes and remove rules that serve no one).
It's making it pretty non competitive and that makes things harder down the line, it'll become more apparent bc it's all about keeping up yeah? Same thing happening in USA, due to financialization of fuckin everything and wnting to export labor to countries we have the upper hand on
Look at the whole TSMC expansion debacle
Errrr, so let's take away the right of people to vote when they hit the age of 50?
LOL, do you think we will be this relevant/irrelevant when we turn 50? Brexit was dumb as fuck but that doesn't justify stripping away people's rights.
Go look for stats on the referendum, if it wasn't for the 50+ years old people the UK would still be in the EU. It's not about "let’s take away the right of people to vote" it is about "how can we let people take vote for something that wont ever affect them either way?". I bet there was someone voting to leave that died of old age the next day, should that person have as much voting power as someone who's on their 30's and had to live an extra 50 years with the fallout of the decidion?
Yes. Your right to vote doesn't change based on how many days you have left to live. By this logic, maybe we should ban everyone with cancer from voting too?
But maybe it should for certain subjects.
Good luck changing the world to the worse. I'm sure you'll do a stellar job.
They can't be serious lol they're just waffling nonsense
And I'm supposed to guess that how? From the /s they didn't add to the end of their post, or?
Oh I wasn't saying you were dumb, they're dumb
No no, what's your take on this? https://lemmy.world/comment/6915894
Dumb article that bowlderizes actual labor issues into stale generational politics takes that have been pushed by consultants since the 90s as blandly palatable fodder for this kind of writing.
That's fair.
The generational politics thing irks me because it's an example of advertisers openly trying to divide people's families and yet that gets taken seriously by "muh family values" conservatives.
"Old people" is pretty inaccurate but a lot of cool old people can be presumed to be dead as well