• FunctionallyLiterate@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    When parents no longer serve as role models, stepping into parenthood yourself becomes an act of improvisation.

    I don’t know about Poland, but in my American experience that’s actually better. Older generations bullied and beat their children, and believed that was good child-rearing - the legacy of which lives on in today’s political right-wing’s collection of bullies and their sycophants.

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        Yeah, that one hit me, too, but I don’t see it as similar. I think it was very spot-on considering the insane rate of change prevalent today. In my roughly five decades of life, I’ve watched things go from a relatively leisurely pace to what we have today where learned skills are frequently outdated within just a few years. It’s felt much like watching a boulder grow and accelerate ever faster as it rolls downhill, demolishing everyone & everything in its way.

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          You’re right, the only real similarity is change itself, as you said. That’s all I was thinking about in that moment.
          Thanks for sharing your perspective, it really added to the article for me.

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    The previous (and possibly current) govt was bribing the pension generation with 13 payments a year instead of 12.

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    Okay but what if instead Poland gave money to me?

    Pros: I would have more money and not be poor

    Cons: Probably sill not going to allow my bloodline continue