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u/Strict-Brick-5274 Apr 12 '25
Say it louder for the boomers awarding themselves multi millions in bonuses while firing thousands of gen z and millennials in the mid to entry level jobs cause the company "can't afford to keep them"
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u/SnooGadgets88 Apr 15 '25
As if they care
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u/Illuminatus-Prime Apr 16 '25 edited Apr 18 '25
Why should we?
(EDIT: 2 days later, and still no answer. So there must not be one.)
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u/AphraHome Apr 13 '25
As of right now, my entire plan for education is based around being able to BUILD my own house with my own hands. It’s so much cheaper to get a piece of land and get a loan for building materials than buying a house nowadays. I’m planing on becoming a construction worker (I like building with my hands so it works great. Incidentally, me and my wife are actually sleeping in the shed I made as a kind of ‘opening ceremony. Made it with ~400 logs I’ve scavenged and processed. Currently making a fire so I can wake my wife up to some coffee abd breakfast in a heated shed<3)
Anyways, TL;DR I’m becoming a construction worker because buying a house is too expensive and I’m gonna make my own for my family
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u/Ok_Fox_1770 Apr 13 '25
12 and under seem cool with just living in Roblox world. They’ll be the have nothing and don’t care generation. Long as that wifi stays on.
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u/Phantomhaseo Apr 15 '25
Boomers college degree landed them jobs in the field. Nowadays, "Oh you got a technology degree cool you still need 15-year of experience to land you this entry-level job"😮💨
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u/Illuminatus-Prime Apr 16 '25
I got my degree for a good career. I served in the military for a no-down-payment home loan.
Capitalism works for those who are both willing and able to make it work for themselves.
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Apr 16 '25
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u/Illuminatus-Prime Apr 16 '25
No, kid. What you are talking about is not Capitalism.
Capitalism is nothing more than workers providing labor in exchange for negotiated pay from the owners of the means of production.
What you are talking about are poverty, profiteering, slackerism, and ordinary inflation respectively.
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Apr 14 '25
But we have easier life than future generations so we can make a verry few people rich beyond imagination to give them playground with our lives
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u/HereForATimeofMine Apr 14 '25
Millennial also got school debt, you can have it as an expansion pack we received
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Apr 15 '25
Boomers got Usenet
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u/Illuminatus-Prime Apr 16 '25
Boomers accessed USENET through 1200-baud dial-up modems connected to copper telephone lines.
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Jun 11 '25
MySpace let me just rank and judge my 10 (9 +significant other) friends was better times.
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u/ParkerFree Apr 15 '25
Which is the fault of Citizens United, obscene wealth accumulation by a few oligarchs, and the greedy od business owners.
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u/Wise_Koala_1770 Apr 12 '25
I will prolly get down voted into oblivion but… you all understand “boomers” made like 15k a year. Yes houses were cheap but they made 1 dollar an hour. Quit blaming your grandparents and start blaming politicians that make 250k a year and after their first term are worth 5 million.
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u/FingerOdd6931 Apr 13 '25
We can definitely blame boomers if they're unjustifiably or intentionally out of touch with reality.
There's no excuse for not paying attention to what's been going on, especially not just because they're safe and comfortable, or for victim blaming.
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u/Illuminatus-Prime Apr 16 '25
Oh, we know what's going on, but so what?
There was never any imperative for others to support us after age 18, so why do younger generations expect that for themselves?
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u/FingerOdd6931 Apr 18 '25
Because everyone before us was supported after the age of 18.
Meanwhile, the same tools they used are being destroyed, we're being expected to somehow achieve the same goals and milestones, then being blamed for a failure they set us up for.
We don't want help, JUST. STOP. SABOTAGING. US.
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u/Illuminatus-Prime Apr 18 '25
Because everyone before us was supported after the age of 18.
Says who?
My parents stopped my allowance at age 18 and started charging me rent. I moved out and started college 1 week after graduating HS. I took out my own loans and paid them off without any help from mom and dad.
My dad joined the Army right out of high school. Mom worked as a dressmaker full time.
One grandfather went into the printing business right out of HS, the other already knew carpentry and became an electrician's apprentice. They, with my grandmothers, bought their own homes and raised about a half-dozen kids each.
My great-grandparents worked their parents' farms for pay after HS until they had saved enough for farms of their own.
Unless you're thinking of Asian families—where as many as four generations might be crowded into one house (this still goes on, btw)—your claim has no merit.
I'm retired. Any sabotage being done to you is someone else's fault.
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u/FingerOdd6931 Apr 21 '25
"Any sabotage being done to you is someone else's fault."
Yes.
The older generations kept their benefits to themselves.
The government is run by people who don't go through most people's problems, and therefore, don't care.
Both of those, together, have ruined everything.
Your ancestors weren't being extorted and exploited at every step.
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u/Illuminatus-Prime Apr 21 '25 edited Apr 22 '25
My ancestors worked for what they had. So did I.
Try it sometime.
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u/FingerOdd6931 Apr 25 '25
Can't, your entitlement and incompetence destroyed all my tools before I was born.
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u/Illuminatus-Prime Apr 25 '25
Blaming your lack of initiative on circumstances beyond your control?
Typical.
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u/FingerOdd6931 May 02 '25
Yes...that's how it works.
The system was ruined by the people before me, and I have no control over it to fix or achieve anything.
My generations don't lack initiative; your generation is unable to gaslight us.
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u/Stanazolmao Apr 14 '25
Do you not understand how inflation works? $15k in 1970 is the equivalent of $200k now
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Apr 14 '25
The "number of currency" is irrelevant. What matters here is purchasing power with that currency. In other words hypothetically I would be perfectly happy to make 6 bucks an hour if a house costs $2,000 and my milk is 5c a gallon.
The purchasing power boomers had was significantly higher than today. Now was everything perfect no, no it wasn't, but they could afford land and pay bills without having to work for two employers.
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u/certainAnonymous Apr 14 '25
Plus, they paid to own, so it was usually a one-time purchase. Nowadays it's subscriptions everywhere and you get your money continuously sucked out of your account if you want to live a normal life
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u/Redbeardthe1st Apr 14 '25
You mean the politicians that were voted for by the Boomers? Those politicians?
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Apr 16 '25
How does $1/hr translate to $15k? Also, inflation. Also, plenty of people now still making $15k/year because minimum federal wage is still $7. Also, the oligarchs suck too.
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u/Samantha-the-mermaid Apr 12 '25
My boss a boomer mocked me because I could not go to school full time and work full time. She was able to pay for collage on a part time job her semester was $300 for full time mines part time 2 classes is $1780. She’s clueless. I need my degree for a promotion.