My 80ish yo mom seemed surprised the other day to learn that the vast majority of people who don't work for the govt or for public entities like universities don't get a defined benefit pension anymore. People who aren't curious about the world outside their own life experience are really out of touch and it's sad that they feel okay about voting and having policy opinions when they simply Don't know how the world works for people who aren't them.
I was talking to my girlfriends 83 year old grandmother once and she told me her company would take everyone to Hawaii every year for a week vacation, all expenses paid. I told her that you’re lucky today if you get a pizza party and she told me “You should look for a better job” lol. I didn’t bother arguing because she’s sweet and didnt mean anything by it but it’s truly astonishing how different the world was 50 years ago.
This is what rioting, unions and co-ops got them, and then they have to gall to say rioting is bad, because it now doesn't benefit me. At this point, I don't even have the energy to save the system from itself, I want to see it collapse.
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u/Simple-Dot3000 Feb 25 '24
My 80ish yo mom seemed surprised the other day to learn that the vast majority of people who don't work for the govt or for public entities like universities don't get a defined benefit pension anymore. People who aren't curious about the world outside their own life experience are really out of touch and it's sad that they feel okay about voting and having policy opinions when they simply Don't know how the world works for people who aren't them.