I love this channel, and starting my day with this video, it put me into this amazing open-hearted place where I long to unite with others to build something better whereas I am much more prone, normally, to angrily wish to tear the capitalist's world down.

    • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      It's absolutely a meme. Generational politics imply that boomer capitalists are somehow qualitatively different from gen x capitalists or millennial capitalists, that we can juxtapose capitalism with boomer characteristics vs capitalism with gen x characteristics vs capitalism with millennial characteristics. Outside of surface level aesthetics like fashion sense and use of slang, there's really not a whole lot distinguishing the three different types of capitalists. It's not like boomer capitalists are more likely to be industrialists or that millennial capitalists are less likely to pursue labor arbitrage.

      Gates is a boomer, Musk is a gen x, Zuckerberg is a millennial, but they're all capitalists in the end. I was honestly surprised that all three belonged in different generational cohorts. Bezos exists on the cusp of a boomer and gen x, but no one would use this fact to somehow suggest that he acts like a cross between the boomer Gates and the gen x Musk like some Gates/Musk hybrid because that's a ridiculous thing to say.

        • HauntedBySpectacle [he/him, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          i literally conceded they are wealthier, the amount being more or less doesn't change that generational politics is meme bullshit in place of actual anticapitalism lol

          • 20000bannedposters [love/loves]
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            2 years ago

            Unfortunately there is a massive rich generation that is dead set on protecting capitalism that helped elevate it

            • HauntedBySpectacle [he/him, comrade/them]
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              2 years ago

              they'll all die someday and if the rest of us aren't organized and ready to fight capitalism, it will still be here like it was 100 years before boomers were born.

                    • HauntedBySpectacle [he/him, comrade/them]
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                      2 years ago

                      The view that generations in and of themselves have a class character, rather than their correlation with class being just a statistical trend from differing historical circumstances. i.e., Boomers don't just more often tend to be bourgeois, the generation as a whole aligns with the bourgeoisie and will support capitalism independent of other factors. Vice versa, younger generations as a whole align with the proletariat and will support revolution against capitalism, independent of other factors.

                      • bigboopballs [he/him]
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                        2 years ago

                        younger generations as a whole align with the proletariat and will support revolution against capitalism

                        I wish.

                        • HauntedBySpectacle [he/him, comrade/them]
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                          2 years ago

                          you said the generation is "dead set on protecting capitalism." and I said that capitalism came long before them and capitalism could easily outlive them.

                          i'll be more specific now and say that millenials and zoomers can be capitalists and support capitalism, and they can't be counted on to be socialists or revolutionaries just because these generations tend to be less wealthy. if you agree with that, then you don't believe in generational politics under the definition I gave. but, that's a definition I made up and if you think of the term differently I'd be curious to hear.

                          • 20000bannedposters [love/loves]
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                            2 years ago

                            I think we see it similarly.

                            Right now the bullwark of capitalism in America is the boomers. And that's due to there wealth and propganda.