evacideI don't understand the people who told me I would get more conservative with age. The more powerful I become, the more angry I get at the people who abuse their power and the more aware I become of the ways in which systemic oppression functions.
20-year old me totally believed that tech was a meritocracy where people pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and that the 30-something guys I dated were attracted to me because I was so mature.
In other news, I am reading "Capital in the 21st Century" by Thomas Picketty and I am so angry at baby boomers right now.
Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg)I have read that book, too. Well, most of it (I didn't need all the details).
No generation after baby boomers have done better (nor worse). It's not a generational thing. It is a powerful people shitting on us, and us not opposing them. Not strongly enough, not as many enough, not knowing enough how to do it.
Neo-liberalism has reigned for half a century, we got to its limits, and even the rich are painfully aware there is no sense in going further; it would be worse even for them. Problem is, people in power really don't know where to go. Because the thing that are killing the economy are the unbearable inequality, the ecological collapse, and all other things neo-liberalism never considered an issue and even promoted as a good thing.