• Candelestine@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    All the adults aren’t ignorant of all the angsty truths you’ve realized, they realized them too. They just kept moving on, and are now 2-20 steps past that. It’s not about problems, it’s about their solutions, and how easy vs difficult any potential solutions can be.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      1 year ago

      Yep, as a teenager I thought thought of things like universal health care and how Obama didn’t do enough.

      As an adult I realize that while I still want it, changing the entire medical industry in the US cannot be done in one term of a president, it’s a long slow process, and if everyone was on board and everything got passed immediately it would still take at least 30 years to turn the ship around so to speak.

      I still want it and of course think it’s a good idea, but as a youth I was able to overlook things like everyone in the insurance industry being out of jobs and logistics changes and normalizing higher taxes and…