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by RankingMember 43 days ago
Propaganda to what end, the global cabal to...encourage people to stay busy in retirement?
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The propaganda around propaganda is working so well. The idea that propaganda is someone with an agenda to promote Canned Beans just shouts that Canned Beans are the best and tries its best to censor any promotion of any other foodstuff. In reality it can be more direct than that.

There are thousands of ways to approach problems that the elderly and soon-to-be elderly have and will develop. This research chose to pursue the theory about how specifically wage labor is something that guards against cognitive atrophy. Why? This could achieve many goals.

- The solution is about economic activity, including increased wage labor taxing

- The solution does not involve any increase in government spending on the elderly

- It valorizes wage labor as an age-protecting activity

- That wage labor could contribute to ill effects is excluded by the framing: why do some people vegitate in front of the TV after working their normal hours?

no to work for someone else forever