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• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yep, the real war is the class war and the billionaires are winning.

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  • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Exactly. Class is the biggest thing that divides us, the rest is a distraction.

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  • turdas@suppo.fi ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Most billionaires are also boomers. The class war and the war against gerontocracy are one and the same.

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    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There are shitty people in every generation.

      • Andrew Tate, for example.
      • Nick Fuentes is another shitty, shitty dude

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      • turdas@suppo.fi ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Neither of those are billionaires.

        Gerontocracy is fundamentally an issue of the few holding more than their fair share of wealth and power at the expense of others and pulling the ladder up behind them. It is a class issue same as everything else.

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• piwakawakas@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  There can be more than one issue, of which both of these are a problem.

  The boomers and the rediculously wealthy have the same mindset: fuck you, I’ve got mine

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  opinion: individualism is a plague and the generational war is a distraction

  people should be able to have their own sense of choice and identity.

  people should also realise that together we can make it so that everyone can reach their full potential, making society better.

  pay your fucking taxes

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  • Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I love taxes, I would gladly pay even more taxes if that meant everyone would be provided for.

    Except at the moment our taxes here in Belgium are already quite high, and our tax system is a complete cluster fuck with plenty of loopholes for the strongest shoulders to not have to carry their weight. Some part of that is even fraudulent, and they’re trying to get a law through right now to find those cases of fraud more efficiently… But it is being opposed by parts of the govt with privacy as the excuse (which I’d normally agree with, except what they’re trying to change is not that egregious afaik and the ratio of found vs investigated fraud is insane)

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I wasn’t calling out your tax Stance, more of a general statement to go with the “pro individualism” statement I have.

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      • Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I wasn’t calling you out at all just going on a bit of a tangent :)

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