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A Boring Dystopia
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Doesn't making necessities unaffordable affect all working class populations?
I get what you're saying, and agree in part, but depending on where you are in the US, a lot of the progress has really only been superficial - and over the same time working class purchasing power decreased and social safety nets decreased.
Economics is an easy point of intersectionality for the working class, because it hurts us all. We can unite around that instead of dividing ourselves from it. It even hits the boomers, and I think we're all aware that many of them are already skating on thin ice in retirement.
There are no 'easy times' for some groups of people (and they deserve our utmost empathy) but I can't help but see it like this: Throw in a minority identity, or a neurodivergency, or anything else that already makes life hard on top of this late stage capitalist economy, and 2020s are right out of a dystopian novel. At least in my opinion.