Abolish AmerikkkaM to Agitprop · 2 months agoPeople say that you become more conservative as you grow older. Meanwhile me at 80:imagemessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up163arrow-down10cross-posted to: agitprop@hexbear.net
arrow-up163arrow-down1imagePeople say that you become more conservative as you grow older. Meanwhile me at 80:Abolish AmerikkkaM to Agitprop · 2 months agomessage-square2fedilinkcross-posted to: agitprop@hexbear.net
minus-squareLarge BullfroglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 months agoOlder people in capitalist countries are more conservative because everyone that isn’t a beneficiary of the status quo is dead from having no healthcare by the time they get old.
minus-squareRedCloudslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 months agoLiterally just survivorship bias! The ones who survived to grow old were the ones that benefited from the system. Thus they think the system did just fine. Because for them, it did!
Older people in capitalist countries are more conservative because everyone that isn’t a beneficiary of the status quo is dead from having no healthcare by the time they get old.
Literally just survivorship bias!
The ones who survived to grow old were the ones that benefited from the system. Thus they think the system did just fine. Because for them, it did!