Just because something is worse somewhere else doesn’t mean you should be happy when things only get slightly worse where you are. They are angry because not only they are historically againt pension reforms, and the way the government forced through the bill by bypassing parliament in a legal method, but one that shows they are really just forcing this down despite popular opinion being very, very against it.
This.
“Someone else has it worse” is the cry of someone who wants you to have it worse, too. It’s just promoting a race to the bottom.
You work work work and when you finally can enjoy your life, you’re old. Brilliant system.
My mum has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer aged 61. I know people lose their parents much earlier, but I am furious that she worked so hard her entire life just to die before she reached retirement.
With your permission…
You work work work to barely afford necessities like shelter and food and when you finally can enjoy your life, you’re old. Brilliant system.
You work work work to barely afford necessities like shelter and food and when you finally can enjoy your life, you’re old and still can’t afford shit. Brilliant system.
When I was a kid, retirement age was 55. Raising the retirement age does nothing more than funnel more money into the pockets of the rich.
Counter question:
Why are the Australians not more mad?
Work is shit. Nobody wants to work.
Aussies aren’t big on protesting against anything. They just grumble and get on with it. Wouldn’t want to be called a whinger.
But yet they’ll throw stuff at the clerk if they take too long to ring them up or sneak in a tax at the register.
Or tossing out their PM at the drop of a hat.
Or someone trying to hijack a plane
Or drunks on the bus.
I think they are big on protesting. They don’t see it as whinging either. They see it as not putting up with shit.
No, they’re right. Speaking as an Australian protester - we have a very conformist culture here. We haven’t been taught to imagine outside the status quo, it’s why Yank flavour and Neoliberal policies get pushed uncritically here. We’re sectioned off in the little castles of our homes - we have to seek out any form of community that isn’t our workplaces in the first place, let alone subversion, let alone (toothless and state captured) protest, let alone direct action and informed praxis.
We might have once, but the majority of Australians don’t know shit about anything that isn’t themselves. We might want to look out for ours - but that circle is very small for mainstream Australia and you bet your ass that’s manipulable by wealthy interests.
Not all of us, but the majority of us are spineless people terrified we’re not safe enough.
better question is why isnt the rest of the world joining the french?
