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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah I remember being young and naive too

[–] FMT99@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Congratulations. You're the favorite person of every oil company executive and petty dictator-wannabe. You think when the unions fought against child labor and 80+ hour work most people didn't think they were crazy?

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Vox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

how was it different? legitimately asking because I want to understand where you're coming from when you say something like that, maybe I am actually naive but I'm open to learning something new.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

The world was a different place, a smaller place... A company that fires all their workers goes broke in the 20's, in the modern day, there are enough hungry people who can be gaslit into "Pulling themselves up by their bootstraps"

At this point, don't try to change the world, just don't let it change you... as long as you can be less twisted than the world, you're doing okay for yourself.

[–] Haywire@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DarthBueller@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

That phrase is past its expiration date, like many of the boomers.