Over three-fourths of Americans think there should be a maximum age limit for elected officials, according to a CBS News/YouGov survey.
I’m 62, which is embarrassingly old to be effing around on the fediverse.
But I just want to say these octogenarians can’t possibly represent me.
It’s partly their age.
But to me wealth is the more corrupting factor. Some of these people have never had a real job, or at least in decades.
I’m both hoping to work until I’m 70 or die sooner.
These rich assholes can’t represent anyone except other rich assholes.
Yeah I’m realizing the fediverse feels so homey because it seems dominated by people old enough to remember the internet of the 90s, the ones that knew AOL was not the entire internet or even ‘web’ proper. We’re already acclimated to an internet where ‘discoverability’ took a little more elbow grease.
I actually had to read books to learn about computers and start using BBSs. Thankfully, my mom supported my reference manual habit 100% since we only traveled to a city that had a book store every few months.
What’s happening now does remind me of the early days of the net. I didn’t have 80 s access like darpa.
I first got Internet access in the early 90s at work.
There was this incredible sense of hope. And then the Nigerian prince scams and all that crap started happening.
It’s a great resource. But yes, elbow grease is not optional.
I am in my thirties and see the decisions these people are making will ensure that I never get to “retire”. It partly their age but mostly their wealth, does Glitchy Mitch have to worry about money, fuck no. You be be sure that he is going to horde all the wealth he can and do his best to look like the Pale man from Pans Labyrinth
I will never understand the people who have enough money for thirty lifetimes but not only keep working, but keep working a job that involves being a full time piece of shit.
I can understand people who love their jobs holding on, which makes me think they love being pieces of shit more than spending more time with their families and pursuing passion projects.
Most people under thirty are facing their “retirement” being two weeks of palliative care that wipes out their savings but there’s 80 year olds out there dragging their bodies out or bed each day to try and take even more.
You’re welcome here!
I agree, I’d rather see the wealth divestments, gift disclosures…
Maybe this age thing is actually a cop-out and is just a lead up to trying to change the voter age. I don’t support it.
I’m 62, which is embarrassingly old to be effing around on the fediverse.
stop talking shit about @FReddit@lemmy.world 😠
I had some kind of random ten years’ of good health through my fifties. Then it all came to a stop like a train wreck – pneumonia, Covid, chemotherapy. And somehow I ended up type 2 diabetic.
Doh!
