• GenosseFlosse@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    The problem is that you need young people to pay for social security and retirement funds, work jobs, live and work in small cities and villages. Without them the services in smaller places will decline, eventually resulting in them to become ghost towns. Once the retirement funds are depleted the older generation will slide into poverty and won’t be able to pay for any goods and services, meaning business has to fire staff, causing more poverty.

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      It’s not a generation conflict, it’s a class conflict.

      Aren’t we producing enough food and goods for all people? It’s a distribution problem. The generation contract failed due to declining birthrates since the boomer era. Everyone knew the day will be coming. But still we clinge on the current economy design and feed the leeches (ultra rich people obviously).

      The generation now 30-40 is much poorer as the boomers were at that age. How could that be? They’re less than the boomers, workers are desperately needed and the generation is working hard. But they’re getting paid pennies in comparison.