The most amazing thing I've seen all week ... and of course this gets "flagged".
Scott Galloway: How the US is destroying young people's future [video]
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#82The most amazing thing I've seen all week ... and of course this gets "flagged".
Yes, it's discouraging that HNers aren't resilient enough to handle differing opinions. I hope it's a vocal minority and not truly representative of the userbase.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. Political parties change their behavior to capture voting demographics. Right now politicians aren't motivated to win the young vote because we vote less.
Is there actual evidence of this occurring or is it just a hypothesis? I can’t recall offhand significant policy changes to capture voting demographics.
Maybe because voting demographics change so slowly, policy changes slowly too. Thirty years ago, when I was still in K-12 school, Baby Boomers were the largest generational voting bloc in the USA, and they still are. With a few exceptions that the rest of us are grateful for, it's been politically status-quo for pretty much my entire life.
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#84The most amazing thing I've seen all week ... and of course this gets "flagged".
Yes, it's discouraging that HNers aren't resilient enough to handle differing opinions. I hope it's a vocal minority and not truly representative of the userbase.
I'd love to hear a flagger's justification on this one. Does this video really violate the site's guidelines, or do you just not like the content and are using your flag as a "mega downvote"?
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#85One more "doable" for Scott - Campaign finance reform. It doesn't matter who you vote for if when they get to congress, they represent their donors rather than the voters. We could call our current system "free speech" or we could call it "legalized bribery." We made the wrong choice.
Donald Trump's only virtue is that what you see really is what you get. He bluntly asked for $1 billion in campaign funding from oil companies in exchange for government policy that will benefit the oil business. Everything is transactional with Trump: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/trump-oil...
transactional is preferable for many people.
to paraphrase Aristotle Onassis, never trust anyone who won't take a bribe
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#86The social contract of working hard and being able to own a home or start a family has been broken. This is especially true in Canada, where the government seems to be doing everything in its power to erase the middle class.
Ontario's conservative govt has made the entire state a third world country.
entire state? you sure you're from Ontario, mon ami? Cuz it's a province
shillbots be gettin lazy again
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#87The single biggest opportunity equalizer for the young generations come from 2 unlikely sources: COVID (mandatory WFH) and Musk (ubiquitous internet access).
This opens doors for anyone who is hard working and can follow though a long term plan. No generation wealth needed.
Study hard, get remote work, buy a cheap piece of land in the middle of nowhere, get married, get a mortgate, get kids.
Focus on your own stuff. Avoid politics, avoid social media, avoid HCOL cities, avoid career ladder. Do your 9-5 each day, log off and invest time in a hobby, family, farm etc.
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#88He is right, but the young can change things. The sad fact is they do not vote, and if they vote at all it is only in presidential. Even in those elections well less then 50% vote. They are a big voting block, if they all start voting, including in local elections, in about 10 years you will see change. But seems people these days want instant change. 2024 will be a big tell for the young, depending on who wins, thin…
"If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting.
In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote."
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, Up, Simba!
Re: Scott Galloway: How the US is destroying young people's future [video]
#89One more "doable" for Scott - Campaign finance reform. It doesn't matter who you vote for if when they get to congress, they represent their donors rather than the voters. We could call our current system "free speech" or we could call it "legalized bribery." We made the wrong choice.
A system where you can buy politicians is not democracy.
But it's still the one we have...
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Want to give any evidence of your Boogeyman Trudeau's efforts to punish the middle class?
Anyone with eyes can see adding more than a million people since COVID began without laying the groundwork in terms of residential capacity or healthcare capacity can see the impact. It’s kept wages suppressed, house and rent prices inflated, and family docs MIA.
An odd take considering that a large percentage of family doctors in Canada are immigrants.