As the baby boomer bubble pushes into its eighties, we are driving into a demographic wall.

  • boonhet@lemmy.zip
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    7 days ago

    And a friendly reminder that boomers own far more than billionaires and as such are very much invested in the system. Your poverty allows them retirement.

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      6 days ago

      You’re not wrong but let’s start addressing wealth concentration with the trillionaire, and billionaires first. A lot of boomers may be millionaires but the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is a billion dollars.

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        6 days ago

        Fact check: 1,000,000,000 - 1 ,000,000 = 999,000,000. But if you apply normal rounding rules… 😉

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        6 days ago

        also, let’s not forget that propaganda is most effective if you have a little bit of wealth and are afraid of losing it