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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm convinced that news outlets and big tech intentionally push ageism / generational-warfare to substitute for class warfare, and divert criticism away from capitalists.

Like who decided to mark off these year ranges and put labels on them anyway, it's completely arbitrary and meaningless.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Allow me to offer a different perspective from the previous reply: holy frickin shit, I honestly never noticed this before. Tbh I'm not sure about the intentionality behind it though.

I mean, who exactly is intentionally doing this? Intent is important here; if it's not individually-assignable, and say emerges from a complex series of interactions between various other policies, or instances of individual decision-making - for example - then it seems hard to reasonably place "blame" like that.

This doesn't preclude taking action against the companies which will be salient for them (e.g. puts financial viability in question, rather than BS fines that amount to parking tickets)... I mean corporations are people too, now, right? Just a thought on how to argue/clarify the premise.

Because otherwise... Yeah, wtf. A lot of dividing lines, a lot of material insecurity, and so on, and nobody has the time - let alone the resources AND perspective simultaneously - to challenge the real dynamic. One which arguably IS being perpetrated with individual intent at multiple scales, and with cancerous impacts (figuratively and literally) on the societies which enable and tolerate them.