@cmconseils you know I thought that was maybe true but when I was younger I took advantage of social services and now that I'm older and doing better financially I'm happy to pay back into those systems for others.

I think it's just an excuse for becoming bitter with age and I refuse.

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Or

The more selfish you are, the more money you have

@cmconseils Rather than directly an effect of wealth, this might be more "People grow more Conservative the more they're told they're better than others".

The same happens when racism or any other form of "some people are better than others" hierarchy gets established.

Conservatism is just amygdala-driven "fear of loss is my overriding concern".

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poor people die younger

when you see social spending cuts imposed by 60- or 80- year-old politicians, that is a generation of the ruling class *killing their peers* below them on the social ladder

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The second part may be true but the first part is actually wrong. True (and interesting) fact.

https://brilliant.org/lesson/the-overton-paradox/

@cmconseils I'm not sure that's true. I can see 50 coming up, and while I'm *severely* better off than the small rural town dysfunctional family I came from, my father would probably burn me as a heathen unmanly socialist at the next Schützenfest.

Shit's fucked in the world.

@cmconseils The older people become the more they conserve the believes and concepts they were exposed to in their youth by their culture and home. Look's like that's a biological imposition. Same goes for doubling down on behavior, tactic's that "worked out".

Depending on the societies and the goal's they propose this "worked out" may vary.

@cmconseils There is a Spanish saying: "If you are young and are not liberal, you don't have a heart, if you are old and you are not conservative, you don't have a brain"

I find it a cheap excuse from people who become richer and forget their principles

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@cmconseils when I was a skint student I remember not having sympathy for striking Underground workers because "they get tons of money already!" When I finally got on a decent wage, I realised that money doesn't go as far as I once thought.

So I personally got more left-wing as I gained more money. 🤷‍♀️

@cmconseils I feel like the older I get, the less I am capable of getting. I've always been the kind of person who relied heavily on their cognitive and physical ability to generate "wealth." My family depends on my ability to keep doing this so that my daughter can maybe get an education. Maybe, one day, I could retire (though that seems very unlikely).

I guess this is selfish after all but at a certain point spending less is all I can control.

@cmconseils I think that's part of it, but I think people also overstate the shift in (white) Boomers from liberal to conservative.

It's not so much that the average white boomer was more liberal when they were younger as that they liked sex and drugs and didn't want to get drafted.

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Just one of those posts which stirs the juices! (and I am sorry if anyone has been rude.)

For me, as an older person, it is not just that I am financially more-stable than I was. I am also more risk averse. Which I hate in myself, so I push myself to take more risks…

…but I am knowledgeable enough to know, in my core, my 'financial stability' is a delusion, mostly outside my control. I trust the good will of younger generations more than my own; I know my gen too well.