Can't even afford a hut on chicken legs on a single income anymore
Can't even afford a hut on chicken legs on a single income anymore
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The older I get (36 now) and the more I see conservatives fucking up absolutely everything for everybody the more left/socialist I become.
IIRC there was study a while back that debunked the idea that people get more conservative as they age. It turned out that rich people with no morals live longer, because they’re entirely self interested, and being entirely self interested they can afford healthcare, thus living longer than non-conservatives on average.
Thats gotta be like 85 vs 84.5. I can't imagine dying earlier makes that much difference
those are some funny numbers. Where’d you get them? Do you really think everyone’s living to 85? most people die in their seventies. The difference in life expectancy for those in the bottom economic bracket vs the top bracket is 15 years for men and 10 years for women.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/1/9/16860994/life-expectancy-us-income-inequality
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rich people with no morals live longer, because they’re entirely self interested, and being entirely self interested they can afford healthcare, thus living longer than non-conservatives on average.
From a philosophical point of view, everyone with absolutely no exception is "self interested." I believe the idea you're talking about is whether bettering the lives of other has been incorporated in your identity at a young age making your self-interest ultimately beneficial for others. It's a complex topic, but the idea is that you don't really truly do anything for others, ever, but if someone convinced you that if you don't do good by others, then you should be ashamed or that if you do, you're a better person, then you do good for others for your own sake, to view yourself in a better light.
I'm a bit confused about your comment though. Are you arguing that the study found that rich people skew the data because of their longer life? If so, I find that hard to believe given the proportion of "rich people," and the consequently negligible ability to statistically skew a population if it were actually randomly sampled.
well what it did is found that conservatives tend to be wealthier, because they’re more likely to take steps that make them wealthy at the detriment of others, and their community. Being wealthier, they have better access to health care and live longer, which means that older people tend to be more conservatives because poor people die younger. Not because getting older makes people more conservative.
I wish I still had the link, it’s way in the rear view back on zombie reddit.
As for the “everyone is without exception self interested” thing, that’s seems like a bit of pedantry because it’s not so much that liberals aren’t self interested it’s that self interest isn’t their primary motivation where in conservatives self interest is really all they’re interested in (they call it “me and mine”). one sees the world as collaborative, while the other sees the world as a socially Darwinistic competition. Which it isn’t.
The idea that “ you don’t really truly do anything for others, ever, but if someone convinced you that if you don’t do good by others, then you should be ashamed or that if you do, you’re a better person, then you do good for others for your own sake, to view yourself in a better light.” is false. It’s a very convenient falsehood because it justifies just about any form of behavior. Typically when someone makes a broad statement about something “everyone” believes all they’re really saying is that that is what THEY believe it, and that they can’t imagine how anyone could ever think about things differently.
I've actually gotten WAY more liberal/left as I'm aging. Almost 40 now and when I started my career as a cpa I was pretty hard core capitalist, although I've always been socially liberal and never voted R in my life. These days I'm like..tear this whole fuckin thing down and eat the rich lol I don't care anymore.
They also say you get more conservative with the more money you make. Nope, I make six figures and am left as fk.
Sorry there is lots of great discussion here and I'm just chiming in to say it's cool you were able to track down and credit the artist (and put in that effort) for what appears to be like a screenshot meme
Yo, I have my misgivings about major corporations like Google and all... But Google Lens is a pretty great tool.
The older I got, the less I felt inclined to associate with made up political categories. Closer to what people call "left" than what they call "right", but damn do people believe some dumb shit across the board.
I wish some blood drinking occultist that runs the GOP would wind up going to Baba Yaga. That'd be great. He'd get eaten and his skin turned into the binding for a book.
Hey though that hut on chicken legs always had its choice of views. What with the constant spinning and all. And her security was pretty good too with fences made out of human bones.