• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    They have three choices: take out a lifetime of debt for a college degree and likely still not be able to find a job, get exploited for their labor because they don’t have a union (likely working for poverty wages), or fight in some foreign land to further America’s corporate power.

    The fact is young people are working harder, for longer hours, more days a week than any since the Industrial Revolution. For that they get the privilege of barely surviving here in the US.

    This isn’t their fault. They were born into the shitty country our parents and grandparents created for them.

    Tax all wealth over $1,000,000,000 and use the money to increase the social safety net.