This is such an interesting time for me because I was in my 30s during the housing market crash and I was still fully buying into capitalism. At the time I lived in Southern California and I had a lot of younger friends who buckled down and stopped spending money and refused to deal with price gouging prices. And I was stupidly trying to…
This is such an interesting time for me because I was in my 30s during the housing market crash and I was still fully buying into capitalism. At the time I lived in Southern California and I had a lot of younger friends who buckled down and stopped spending money and refused to deal with price gouging prices. And I was stupidly trying to get them to “support” businesses to keep the economy going. And they weren’t having it. And I thought “Oh they’ll understand when they are older.”
So now those people are in their late 30s/early 40s and we have swapped spots. They’re supportive of the system and I have locked down spending out of spite and I’m telling them all how right they were in their 20s. And part of them must know that I was wrong, because they don’t reply to me telling me “no no you were right we should spend money!”
It has just been so fascinating to see how the propaganda works differently depending on where people are in their stages in life. Because it’s the same propaganda over and over and over again.
This is such an interesting time for me because I was in my 30s during the housing market crash and I was still fully buying into capitalism. At the time I lived in Southern California and I had a lot of younger friends who buckled down and stopped spending money and refused to deal with price gouging prices. And I was stupidly trying to get them to “support” businesses to keep the economy going. And they weren’t having it. And I thought “Oh they’ll understand when they are older.”
So now those people are in their late 30s/early 40s and we have swapped spots. They’re supportive of the system and I have locked down spending out of spite and I’m telling them all how right they were in their 20s. And part of them must know that I was wrong, because they don’t reply to me telling me “no no you were right we should spend money!”
It has just been so fascinating to see how the propaganda works differently depending on where people are in their stages in life. Because it’s the same propaganda over and over and over again.