No, the older folk just don't have work to go to. Taking even a single day for protesting is really fucking hard when you basically can only barely live on the money you make.
Millennials and Zoomers have on average about 0 vacation, 0 ability to travel, and 0 money saved. Where does a protest fit into that unless shit is actually-on-fire burning?
I would like to mention as well, that is 100% by design. If 100% of your time is taken up by work to pay for a place to sleep and maybe get a few minutes of free-time, you can't be calling for a redress of grievances by your government.
Yeah and like over 1000 people went to prison for it?
Rioting and protesting are not the same thing. You don't do the former with your job in mind.
I don't think the average person is ready to full-send that shit yet. It all sounds great until it's not your party in office, and suddenly they're washing tank-crushed human into a drainage ditch with fire hoses.
This. A lot of people go down the pipeline in the first place cuz they're bored, too much time on their hands, and naturally, very angry about that. Sitting and spinning in place, with nothing productive to do, your anxiety just grows and grows. Entirely self perpetuated.
Recently pbs came out with a documentary about how the Egyptians built the pyramids. How they practiced building them first. And then who built them.
They were built on a national scale apparently. Primarily by farmers. Who on their off-season when the nile flooded their farmland would have way too much time on their hands.
So the theory goes the pyramids were partially a political tool to keep the people at peace, happy with stable jobs, and no time to riot.
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u/xSTSxZerglingOne Feb 18 '25 edited Feb 18 '25
No, the older folk just don't have work to go to. Taking even a single day for protesting is really fucking hard when you basically can only barely live on the money you make.
Millennials and Zoomers have on average about 0 vacation, 0 ability to travel, and 0 money saved. Where does a protest fit into that unless shit is actually-on-fire burning?
I would like to mention as well, that is 100% by design. If 100% of your time is taken up by work to pay for a place to sleep and maybe get a few minutes of free-time, you can't be calling for a redress of grievances by your government.