• Stern@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    You can only get more conservative when you have things to protect like a house and a pension.

    Most millennials retirement plan atm is die of heatstroke in 150 degree weather in a 8 person shared apartment in Alaska.

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      2 months ago

      I have a house and a pretty sizable retirement account.

      I will GLADLY take a lower home value, higher taxes on my retirement, higher taxes in general, so long as the ultra wealthy are also taxed accordingly.

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      2 months ago

      Or you’ll get more communist when you have people to protect, like children or friends who start getting sick now that they’re not young anymore

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        2 months ago

        I became a socialist because I was an “essential employee” during the height of the pandemic. I was treated like shit by my company, the customers, and the government while they sung my praise. I watched my grandpa get good cancer treatment with the VA (shocker, I know, but it happens) while my sister and grandma had to fight insurance for cancer treatment.

        We can’t make a perfect world, but we can make a better one. And it starts with a socialist economy.