I'm not actually upset Grandma and Grandpa are getting vaccinated first. My state abandoned any pretense that "essential workers" might get prioritized in the vaccine rollout once hospital staff all got theirs and is now functioning on a purely age based rollout. Many of my coworkers and I are "essential" frontline workers and many of us are in our twenties or teens which means we will be some of the last people to get vaccinated, meanwhile a bunch of comfy PMC-types in their thirties and forties who get to work from home are going to get their shots months ahead of us.

It's bad enough that they've essentially condemned us to death for the economy this whole time, but now they're not even doing it for the economy.

  • Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    I don't think you can put too much blame on most old people for this system because that presumes a degree of democracy which I don't think ever seriously existed. At the same time they've been mostly indifferent to this awful system emerging simply because it didn't affect them. I think that combined with jealousy causes some confusing feelings.

    • Biggay [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      I'm not confused, I am very angry at the olds. I do legitimately, want to end social security and medicaid/medicare because of how it has engendered an entire class of old people to do the "fuck you I got mine routine" and if you even dare to talk to them about climate change, well, "I wont be alive for that!" (as they complain on facebook in terrible grammar about why the world is bloodred and how it burns to breathe). And youre right about the democracy point, but all that really means is that while they lived during a time of tension and ability to change things, they didnt, and now we have to against much worse odds.

      Turn Social Security into a UBI funded by Georgist land taxes, and goddamn healthcare pls M4A. Otherwise these people as a group do not deserve it for their stewardship of the planet. They legitimately need to be reeducated beyond even that, and I dont think the world is going to have the resources for it as we go forward. People in the 3rd world (mostly young with blank slates) deserve so much more than most of the boomers.