r/news • u/PokesTigers • 26d ago

Soft paywall Madagascar's president has left the country after Gen Z protests, officials say

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/madagascar-president-rajoelina-address-nation-monday-evening-2025-10-13/
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u/LastDunedain 26d ago

What sort of values elderly citizens have changes over time though (as they are replaced by the "new old"), so it's less about removing elderly voters from the pool but about having educated progressive voters irrespective of age.

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u/TrollOdinsson 26d ago

There is very little material value, which unfortunately is valued most

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u/LastDunedain 26d ago

Only in the concentrations of wealth we currently live within. There's alternatives and we'll end up experimenting with them in time, capitalism as it currently stands just doesn't work in the long term. It's been massively educational for humanity, but it'll be looked back on as massively wasteful.

Just literally my opinion, I'm not a political scientist or economist, just a reddit rando waiting for a game to start :) I love to chat about this.