Fabio Manganiello on Nostr: npub1h55q4…9jfjp Agree, a more correct expression should have been "against my ...

npub1h55q4u52v7ysfvxdtxngya9chpgtx0ru3hxq0w7hwnknxqqtkhzqz9jfjp (npub1h55…jfjp) Agree, a more correct expression should have been "against my short-term interests".

Paying more taxes on my salary, on my house or on my bank account would definitely be against my short-term interests.

But those taxes will fund a better public healthcare (and I'll also benefit from it if I get sick, unlike the crappy state of the Dutch healthcare system), better public education for my kid, more affordable housing (which means less homeless people and less burglars, which have become an issue even in my posh Amsterdam neighbourhood), and a more sustainable green transition.

And, most of all, people that don't have to fight for their basic necessities and don't have the instruments to understand the full picture of the problems that afflict them are less likely to be embittered and angry to the point of voting for fascist pipers.

So yeah, on the short term more taxation and wealth redistribution definitely isn't in my narrow interests. But on the long term it'll definitely benefit everyone.

I think that most of those in my demographic+age group have understood this. We have become what years ago would have been described as the "elite" - educated wealthy mostly white folks who work in the wealthiest industries. Yet, unlike the elites of the 1970s-1990s, which used to vote for conservative jerks like Reagan, Berlusconi or Thatcher, who selfishly defended the narrow interests of the elites, we mostly vote for parties that put the common good before our own narrow short-term interests.

And, while in the 1970s-1990s the least educated and least wealthy used to cast their votes in the direction of Labour, socialist or even post-communist parties, they now cast their vote on the opposite side of the political spectrum, even if those people clearly state that they won't do anything to make their lives better.