Crowstep
1d ago
No, its not unique to millenials, but I suspect that the environment they're in is creating pressures previous generations didn't experience at the social level.
How do we square that with the face that age gaps between husbands and wives are decreasing over time?
Crowstep
6d ago
Every government program expands until it all is essentially 70% fraud by most people’s understanding of what the program was suppose to fix.
Technophiles like to talk about guaranteed minimum income when the robots inevitably take all our jobs. I wonder if the process won't be more gradual. Disability and unemployment schemes expanding until they encompass basically everyone. The more people who lie in order to access the schemes, the less taboo there is for everyone else.
The only thing that seems to be stopping it is the status hit that people take from being unemployed. As much as I criticise building an identity around work, at least those people tend not to cheat the welfare system.
Crowstep
6d ago
you just read about random Jewish families with this kind of wealth
Well yeah, (non-Haredi) Ashkenazi Jews are rich, because they are intelligent, and intelligent people can make lots of money. That's a very different claim from saying that Jews are uniquely likely to pass down or hoard their wealth. In fact, a list of the countries with the highest private wealth to GDP ratio looks like this:
- Hong Kong
- Italy
- Spain
- Switzerland
- United States
Israel is down at number 46, between Bahrain and Slovakia.
It’s frowned upon by non Jews.
On this ranking of most charitable countries, Israel outperforms almost every European country on every metric. America and Israel both score highly, most likely because they are both very religious by rich country standards.
So yes there are more examples of Jews hoarding money in clans. Safras, Rothschild, Sassoons.
Here are a list of the wealthiest families:
- Ellison - Ashkenazi/Italian, although he explicitly rejects his Jewish heritage
- Walton - Anglo-American
- Arnault - French and 'devoutly Catholic'
- Tata - Indian
- Koch - Dutch-American
- Ortega - Spanish
- Ambani - Indian
- Mars - Euro-American, not Jewish
- Adani - Indian
- Slim - Lebanese
As far as I can tell, all you're doing is combining confirmation bias with a dislike of Jews. None of what you are saying has any factual basis.
You also never explained what exactly you mean by 'really bad things'. I suspect you deliberately elided between the ability to do bad things, and actually doing bad things, which allows you to infer they are committing evil without having to demonstrate it.
I know a Russian girl who got offended when someone referred to her as a woman. She said it made her sound old.
To move from being called 'madame-moiselle' to 'madame' is an unpleasant right of passage for every young French woman.
Really, the anglosphere is weird in that we think referring to a young woman as a girl might be a bad thing.
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