• ramble81@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    Your landlord cares about politics… that’s why he votes people in who make sure renters have less rights.

    Your boss cares about politics… that’s why he votes people in who make sure you can’t form a union, and keep the minimum wage low

    You may not care about politics, but the people who have a direct impact on your life definitely do. And the longer you leave it to them, the less rights you’ll have.

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      2 days ago

      True, but their votes also make no difference in the grand scheme of things. The only thing that does make a difference is if your boss is the CEO of a big company that donates to politicians. But you can’t counter that.

      That you’d bring up the minimum wage argument kind of shows exactly what I was talking about. Most people think this is remotely relevant and keep bringing it up as an argument when all it does is show how little they know of how economy works. This is the kind of people that got Trump in office, no thinking, just parrotting what feels good to say because they’d like it to be true.