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World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2025
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People getting social security and Medicare, which comes out of my pay check
Lol. You guys make me laugh.
"I make 50k and social security takes 3k!"
No, dipshit, you make 47k. You just think they're taking the money from you because it's structured in a way to make you annoyed by it. Your company doesn't NEED to show you how much they pay into SS on your behalf. But they do because then you'll hate SS recipients and vote against your best interests.
You've been played.
The state is capturing surplus value of my labour to provide universal health care for people who own housing and hold most the wealth outside the 1%.
These same people block any political reform that would benefit the working class. Same people are refusing SS reform and are depleting the SS trust fund.
Learn basic economics and how these regimes actually work.
PS. FICA is 7.5 twice. So 50k income is being taxed 3750 goes directly from employet and 3750 from the paycheck to 7.5k in total.
Learn the math while you are at it.
look at this fucker trying to borrow socialist terminology and ideas to advocate against welfare, the surplus value of your labor goes to your capitalist boss you dumb fuck
Sure, that's called profit.
This conversation is about the boomers as a class and about their bootlicking behaviour at expense of working people.
If you don't see it... You ain't looking.
But I am happy you enjoy paying for universal health care and UBI... Most young people have shittier health care while living in poverty. This system is doesn't work anymore and it they are running into the ground before your eyes. You accept it though 🤡
Ignorant crab in a bucket. What an angry little useful idiot.
Yes it's the democratic institutions that are the problem, don't look at the small group of economic lords that steal everything from the working class and avoid contributing back.
That's just a healthy profit, it's the boomers! It's the immigrants! Look over there.
Ignorant little fucking crab
My work on fedi speaks for itself.
And you provided zero counter argument to my thesis.
Why should the worker support a system that will be depleted within 10 years because boomers refuse the optimize it for the demographic shift?
Why should they be paid out in full? While rest of us get reduce benefits?
I am all about solidarity but this is not Solidarity, this old people fucking over young people after they sold out the country to their dear owners that they worship on tv.