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[โ€“] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 62 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Working forty-plus hours a week plus commute and domestic responsibilities keeps us from civic awareness.

It also keeps us from parenting and has since the start of the industrial age. So the madness (the family dysfunction and mental illness) is intergenerational.

We're all mad here.

[โ€“] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

It used to be worse during the gilded age, and people still managed to unionize then.