Any time I hear a boomer talk about gen x, millennials and gen z wanting more social safety nets, I almost always hear the same argument.
“That’s socialism, and in socialism you will just be a slave without being able to have any choices or freedom.”
What they do t understand is that yes, they have created a system so abysmally bad, unfair and difficult to survive in that a system like that sounds preferable. We’d rather have the bare minimum if we at least had peace of mind that the ground isn’t going to collapse underneath us.
That’s the point. You have made a system that we have so little faith in and find so terrible that we’d rather have no choices if it means we’d be ok. Now ask yourself why that is