People in Nairobi complain about the rent and cost of living, just as people in Newcastle or Frankfurt.
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@PedroLeal_ @AwetTesfaiesus @die_Leo @ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski
My father, as a welder in public works, could sustain a family on his income. Including building a house and owning a car. Money was tight, but still.
My partner and I both went to university. We both work. Yet my father's lifestyle would be out of reach. We are not poor. But that's because we are lucky to be part of a housing coop, with neither car nor kids. And lets not talk pensions.
@billiglarper @PedroLeal_ @AwetTesfaiesus @ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski Hmm ... People in other EU countries are no better off financially than those here, yet they are more likely to own their own homes. I grew up in Spain, and in many southern European cultures, people have a completely different attitude to life, community, family, and solidarity. They are less focused on the individual and therefore much less egocentric.
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@billiglarper @PedroLeal_ @AwetTesfaiesus @ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski Hmm ... People in other EU countries are no better off financially than those here, yet they are more likely to own their own homes. I grew up in Spain, and in many southern European cultures, people have a completely different attitude to life, community, family, and solidarity. They are less focused on the individual and therefore much less egocentric.
@billiglarper @PedroLeal_ @AwetTesfaiesus @ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski What also strikes me is that there is hardly any solidarity among those affected by poverty and/ or the middle class in this country, in contrast to the solidarity among the very wealthy.
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@Awet Tesfaiesus, MdB well, nice campaign. sounds about correct. but unluckily the greens in germany do not address any of the complaints in this campaign ...
@jabgoe2089 Not quite true. And: not yet.
#UKGreens adopted this only recently. So did NZ Greens if I'm not mistaken
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@jabgoe2089 Not quite true. And: not yet.
#UKGreens adopted this only recently. So did NZ Greens if I'm not mistaken
@Awet Tesfaiesus, MdB well, then please tell me anything particularly "green" that was done in badenwürttemberg beyond the introduction of palantir. -
@PedroLeal_ @AwetTesfaiesus @die_Leo @ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski
Nice for you. No irony.
I grew up in a village in a structurally struggling region. I didn't leave the state for some big city dream, but simply because I wanted a decent income. And even that's a very relative thing with how cost of living has been rising for decades while wages are shrinking.
@billiglarper @AwetTesfaiesus @die_Leo @ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski but even though you move to a big city to get a bigger income, that decision also entails bigger expenses and other problems... can you honestly say you're happier?
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@billiglarper @AwetTesfaiesus @die_Leo @ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski but even though you move to a big city to get a bigger income, that decision also entails bigger expenses and other problems... can you honestly say you're happier?
@PedroLeal_ @billiglarper @die_Leo @ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski that was true decades ago, but has long become a lie.
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@PedroLeal_ @billiglarper @die_Leo @ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski that was true decades ago, but has long become a lie.
@AwetTesfaiesus @billiglarper @die_Leo @ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski I guess it depends on each of our societies... where I live, there certainly are more employment opportunities if you live in a major city, and you pay less in commute, for example.
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@Awet Tesfaiesus, MdB well, then please tell me anything particularly "green" that was done in badenwürttemberg beyond the introduction of palantir.
Look, I understand that you are into politics very much. And that I admire. It is always good to have an interest in society and how it is shaped and why.
So, if you ask me about my work and how I voted and why, or why I strayed from my colleagues at times, I'll be happy to answer.
Yet, when it comes to someone else's work I suggest you go ask them.
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RE: https://mastodon.scot/@LaChasseuse/115941198098862825
People in Nairobi complain about the rent and cost of living, just as people in Newcastle or Frankfurt.
Yet, everybody thinks that this is somehow a local phenomenon: they think: my city isn't working, my country isn't working.
These aren't local issues. It's the same issue manifesting everywhere.
@ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski and #ukgreens is the right topic at the right time. Stop running and look, so hope becomes normal again.
@AwetTesfaiesus @ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski Simply wow! Congrats for this great message! Goosebumps!
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RE: https://mastodon.scot/@LaChasseuse/115941198098862825
People in Nairobi complain about the rent and cost of living, just as people in Newcastle or Frankfurt.
Yet, everybody thinks that this is somehow a local phenomenon: they think: my city isn't working, my country isn't working.
These aren't local issues. It's the same issue manifesting everywhere.
@ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski and #ukgreens is the right topic at the right time. Stop running and look, so hope becomes normal again.
@AwetTesfaiesus @ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski One of the things that bothers me, that redistribution of wealth could fix, is the claimed lack of jobs.
When you do stop running and look around you can see that there are plenty of jobs that need doing. But the money to pay people to do them has mysteriously disappeared into the pockets of people with the audacity to call themselves "job creators".
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@AwetTesfaiesus @ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski One of the things that bothers me, that redistribution of wealth could fix, is the claimed lack of jobs.
When you do stop running and look around you can see that there are plenty of jobs that need doing. But the money to pay people to do them has mysteriously disappeared into the pockets of people with the audacity to call themselves "job creators".
@fluffgar you saying there should be more jobs or that jobs done (like care work) should be payed?
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@fluffgar you saying there should be more jobs or that jobs done (like care work) should be payed?
@AwetTesfaiesus Both. I'm saying there are plenty of jobs being done that should be paid, and that there are jobs that clearly need taken care of but aren't because the funding is missing.
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