stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net to solarpunk memes@slrpnk.net · 1 month agoif you're not free to become poor, homeless, and starving, are you really free?slrpnk.netimagemessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up1306arrow-down183
arrow-up1223arrow-down1imageif you're not free to become poor, homeless, and starving, are you really free?slrpnk.netstabby_cicada@slrpnk.net to solarpunk memes@slrpnk.net · 1 month agomessage-square37fedilink
minus-squarejorp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up33arrow-down12·1 month agoA country that went from serfdom to industrial economy in 30 years then got absolutely wrecked in ww2 losing millions of its population might not be able to pull it off as well as we could today
minus-squareZorque@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32arrow-down3·1 month agoIt also helps to not have a brutal dictatorship in charge. Thankfully we only have a plutocracy!
minus-squareEtterra@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 month agoIsn’t it more of a corporate geritocracy?
minus-squareZorque@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month 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.
A country that went from serfdom to industrial economy in 30 years then got absolutely wrecked in ww2 losing millions of its population might not be able to pull it off as well as we could today
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.