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It's a difficult time.
Yesterday, it was hearing about big cuts to Social Security agency personnel coming.
Social Security is a minimal American old age pension fund that workers pay into throughout working years. Dates back to the New Deal of President FDR. Every paycheck I ever had, has had a percentage to SS.
Yesterday, I was thinking,
"If that's stolen, then I don't get to retire?
I have to just work until I die?
Or I just die if I can't find work?"
@murodegrizeco
While we're at it:
Employers shed older workers at 50 or so.
Young people cling to their ginned up hatred of older people.
@murodegrizeco@toad.socialThis does fit with a model of #America as 4 level #caste system:
Hyperwealthy, with overwhelming say in how things happen, with endless fawning media gaze, with global reach and global impunity.
Technocratic engineers and managers, making system work for top caste, protected only as long as useful, always afraid of becoming...
Precariat, working people working hard but falling behind and falling apart.
Untouchables. The prisoners, immigrants, homeless, disabled, old, sick.
@murodegrizeco
I agree.
We, as a country, have a bizarre readiness to worship people who are wealthy, famous, or beautiful, or or those who declare themselves to be extra-holy, for a small fee.