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.netimagemessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1306arrow-down185
arrow-up1221arrow-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 · 4 months agomessage-square36fedilink
minus-squarejorp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up33arrow-down13·4 months 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-down3·4 months agoIt also helps to not have a brutal dictatorship in charge. Thankfully we only have a plutocracy!
minus-squareEtterra@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·4 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.
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.