My child, maybe let’s both take a beat to understand that we’re a generation apart. I’m likely as old as your parents; my grandfather fought in WWII. My parents we’re married in the 70s.
I also have a masters degree in economic policy, so maybe understand, sweet child, that you have very impractical, rose-tinted glasses for some Boomer era that still relied on a boatload of racism, and was entirely unsustainable, filled with poison, and centered on profits above people. It’s a universe away from what you actually want.
I beg you to learn about economic history before you yearn for anything of the past. The future needs to be made new for a modern era, not stocked together from nostalgia.
I’m going to hope this is a cultural difference, and you are roughly my parents age. However, imagining a stranger my parent’s age calling me, a grown ass man with a mortgage and everything, “child” or “sweet child” is just weird. Respectfully you’d need to be at least 20 years older for that to be comfortable to me, or working at a waffle house.
Anyway we are funneling more and more wealth to the top. Reclaim that and we can all live just like my grandparents and your parents. Maybe even a bit better.
And don’t worry I’m quite familiar with history. Built a career out of it myself. I just see significantly larger causes for income inequality than racial discrimination and race based exploitation alone explains.
Yes western nations even today extract wealth from poorer nations. Consumers do benefit by getting “goods”. This exhange benefits the wealthy more than the consumer. I’d gladly give up cheap goods like phones or cars for affordable commodities like food, shelter, and healthcare.
I don’t yearn for suburbia, I yearn to be able to live. To have a family. To not worry day to day what horrible shit my country will do only to benefit the rich.
The cultural difference seems to be you seem to take everything literally. It’s a touch of absurdist sarcasm that is a play on the GOT phrase “my sweet summer child.” Did you really not get that?
Y’all gotta lighten up just a bit or this shit’ll kill you before you ever affect it.
Fair. Sorry for the miss on that, then. That’s on me. But certainly not Shakespeare-based; George R R Martin-based. Which is far worse.
Anyway, the Olds poisoned our skies and soil bodies and minds. My generation as well. No reason to let anyone else’s nostalgia brainwash you to their point of view of how strong and noble and thoughtful they thought everyone else was when they were kids.
My child, maybe let’s both take a beat to understand that we’re a generation apart. I’m likely as old as your parents; my grandfather fought in WWII. My parents we’re married in the 70s.
I also have a masters degree in economic policy, so maybe understand, sweet child, that you have very impractical, rose-tinted glasses for some Boomer era that still relied on a boatload of racism, and was entirely unsustainable, filled with poison, and centered on profits above people. It’s a universe away from what you actually want.
I beg you to learn about economic history before you yearn for anything of the past. The future needs to be made new for a modern era, not stocked together from nostalgia.
I’m going to hope this is a cultural difference, and you are roughly my parents age. However, imagining a stranger my parent’s age calling me, a grown ass man with a mortgage and everything, “child” or “sweet child” is just weird. Respectfully you’d need to be at least 20 years older for that to be comfortable to me, or working at a waffle house.
Anyway we are funneling more and more wealth to the top. Reclaim that and we can all live just like my grandparents and your parents. Maybe even a bit better.
And don’t worry I’m quite familiar with history. Built a career out of it myself. I just see significantly larger causes for income inequality than racial discrimination and race based exploitation alone explains.
Yes western nations even today extract wealth from poorer nations. Consumers do benefit by getting “goods”. This exhange benefits the wealthy more than the consumer. I’d gladly give up cheap goods like phones or cars for affordable commodities like food, shelter, and healthcare.
I don’t yearn for suburbia, I yearn to be able to live. To have a family. To not worry day to day what horrible shit my country will do only to benefit the rich.
The cultural difference seems to be you seem to take everything literally. It’s a touch of absurdist sarcasm that is a play on the GOT phrase “my sweet summer child.” Did you really not get that?
Y’all gotta lighten up just a bit or this shit’ll kill you before you ever affect it.
Honestly it’s lemmy, I expected age based condescension more than a Shakespeare based one. Unfortunately tone is hard to convey over text
Edit: IDK why I said Shakespeare instead of GOT
Fair. Sorry for the miss on that, then. That’s on me. But certainly not Shakespeare-based; George R R Martin-based. Which is far worse.
Anyway, the Olds poisoned our skies and soil bodies and minds. My generation as well. No reason to let anyone else’s nostalgia brainwash you to their point of view of how strong and noble and thoughtful they thought everyone else was when they were kids.