"bypassing traditional milestones" is a funny way of saying that most of us can't afford to buy a house with multiple jobs, won't have children because we can't afford them, most of our degrees are useless, and we are the poorest generation among all current living generations
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Huh. It’s almost like this is all…what’s the word…
Anyway Luigi all billionaires.
A little funny that the next 20 years will be Boomers dealing with a lack of 20-somethings willing to be nurse's aids to wipe their asses in the nursing home.
Said future began with Gen X, which began in 1961. With sympathy for your generation, you’re dead wrong about mine.
Reagan helped push the wealth accumulation policy that is "trickledown" economics.
This class war has been waged far longer than any generation has lived.
If this shit were happening in 1966, we would be protesting like S. Korea.
Conservatism in the US is just flat out doublethink.
But I agree conservatism it is asinine
Since 2008, the Total-US-wages-to-corporate-profits has been 4:1
Prior to 2000, it was commonly 6:1 to 10:1
https://bsky.app/profile/nolore.bsky.social/post/3lf5u2j7oak2d
#boomers
He had a "we are the 99% poster" in his room when he died 😔
Mentally I'll grant you that Obama is a boomer, the boomer mind virus of selfishness, but Obama is firmly a gen Xer.
This was mainly because they said Vietnam was bullshit and refused to continue the Mexican War/WWI/WWII/Korea/Vietnam tradition of nearly every other generation having to deal with a war draft.
It wasn’t easy and cost me a good decade and a half of my life. I will never forget that.
The biggest relief valve was cheap housing, and younger Gen X went all in on home ownership despite low salaries.
Which ended in ‘08 with many of the people I knew with stable jobs and cheap mortgages ending up laid off and losing the house.
The Dems could have jumped in front of that wave easily, if not for the Sentarorial lock on the party. Any D governor could have run on it.
They were all that was on offer, people assigned them assuming that their rising salaries and stable interest rates would make it okay, and then ended up fucked by ballooning payments.
And yet they hope that it's ON US to fix THEIR OWN SHIT
They fucked the ENTIRE PLANET for the last FIFTY FUCKING YEARS
You know what?
This planet is fucked, and we're just going to take care of ourselves and our lil communities,
Never work a MINUTE MORE THAN YOU NEED TO.
genX's entire life experience has been boomer decided.
when boomers die off, there will be a vacuum that will make the next 100y unrecognizable...and likely worse
We're in a system where you can essentially use your money to buy more money. But you have to have the money first.
"Even though marriage consistently fails, it's still obviously the fault of the people involved for not trying hard enough."
Blame passing is how corrupt and unworking systems stay in power.
This was brought on by these people. They pushed ads and pretty colors and blind consumerism on us all since we were toddlers, then wonder why, as everything goes to shit, we all just want to continue being "adult toddlers."
How can you NOT believe that graphic? It's like puppy dog eyes but fake rich people!
"But how did we end up here?
Where everything I feared seems to be coming true
And the ones that we put our trust in
We wait for them to become dust again"
Betrayed by the ones who raised us, waiting to be able to fix things.
There. Fixed it for ya.
Can't even fix it right. We are truly living in the worst timeline.
Let’s talk about why they are not able to buy certain things.
Then just pipe down with the judgment , please.
Old fart rite of passage that I check myself on daily.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X
“Just Say No” was for all the other disenfranchised communities. This shit hits different.
I pay reduced rent to my father in law...
Yeah current economy is bad if you aren't making 7 figures a year minimum.
All while being treated like children by these people when we're barely SURVIVING
Then they proceeded to break every single provision of my hiring contract over the next 9 months, and demoted me when I asked for a raise.
I didn’t even know my bank info until I fought it out of them. It was almost a crime that fight.
It’s that they lost it and I was ready to throw hands cause *first you don’t tell me now you lost the info*
It got sorted out in the end.
It doesn't just spring out of you like public hair as you come of age
You might as well call millennials born after 1990 the futureless generation because the 2008 recession completely destroyed our chances to follow the normal pipeline of building a life in your 20s for security in your 30s that post-depression decades established
* of these things, like having children. But it would be cool if more people were concerned in a helpful way and not a judgey way. Loads of people want to have children and, for various reasons, can’t (currently or possibly ever.)
Younger people by contrast have been given the burdens but not the opportunity.
So many of them hit 18, decided “I’m an adult now” and just stopped growing.
1. admit the validity of my points & that
2. your point is erroneous & that you will
3. stop giving GenZ children a hard time in your head. Times have changed, maybe think about how to help as opposed to criticizing.
I don't think it's not a problem — it is — but it's less an issue than an overall lack of supply
https://www.statista.com/statistics/184955/us-national-health-expenditures-per-capita-since-1960/#:~:text=Per%20capita%20national%20health%20expenditures,care%20costs%20in%20the%20world.&text=With%20increased%20per%20capita%20health,well%20as%20high%20administrative%20costs.&text=A%20large%20proportion%20of%20all,by%20the%20end%20of%202022.
https://wapo.st/3W88B6w
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2015/11/04/raising-kids-and-running-a-household-how-working-parents-share-the-load/
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/child-care-costs-outpacing-inflation-report/story?id=110688837#:~:text=Between%201990%20and%20April%202024,care%20and%20preschool%20rose%20263%25.&text=KPMG's%20chief%20economist%20says%20Americans,your%20family%2C%22%20Swonk%20said.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/two-charts-that-show-the-growth-of-student-loan-debt/
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/08/02/why-is-the-teen-birth-rate-falling/
https://www.bankrate.com/real-estate/history-of-home-affordability/#what-it-means
That there’s nothing unique with this generation….
You know that shirt and tie expensive
Glad I never went to school but tbh I never was cause I was never good at anything and never had direction or support from my parents.
I got lucky enough to be able to own a home for a very brief stint because my husband inheriting silent generation money because of his mother's passing due to cancer. (Her siblings were fucking awful about it, too. Boomer cancer, every one.)
I was told to expect maybe 10k. Maybe.
So not only are boomers ruining the economy for us now, they're also making sure that inherited wealth skips us entirely and goes to their zoomer grandchildren.
They chose to be miserable and make drinking their hobby. I was born young and I'll die young at 100.
Thanks for the remark!
So come to germany and study here!
I guess we'll just have to burn a little hotter so they can catch some of the flames and share the warmth from their socio-economic house of cards combusting.
Can boomers grow up and stop being so gullible? (Sarcasm very much intended)
In 1975.
They don't write in high-hand Episcopalian like this any more.
Every paragraph just gets more and more horrifying
tl;dr: the woman who wrote this was the leading anti-feminist before Phyllis Schlafly came along, and was on the board of an 80s anti-communist org alongside Donald fucking Rumsfeld
For 1991.
no, we are just not brainwashed like boomers. we played Sims as kids, saw how fucking hollow traditional lifestyle is, and want something more for ourselves. Personally, I'm more of a Total War person.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sibling_Society
Middle School: This is to get you ready for high school!
High School: This is to get you ready for college!
College: This is to get you ready for life!
Life: Literally none of that mattered. Gimme your shoes. *spits in face* Bitch.
https://youtu.be/IwvrGHsjD7g
https://www.statista.com/statistics/318927/percentage-of-americans-whe-were-married-between-age-18-32-by-generation/
They blame their own children/grandchildren while eating them too. They gut social services for a little more boom in their banks. They dismiss the concerns of whole generations they raised as “immature.”
It’s a Blame-game shame again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIRkfLc-bHQ
It's just my father with his neverending oldschooler stuff, and, for some reason, I'm supposed to just accept it
Sure my parents were stuck in a narcissistic abuse cycles that taught me relationships were misery. But they are mature because they owned a house and had a kid to try and keep a shitty marriage together.
Also playing video games occasionally is immature, whereas addiction to sports and tv news IS mature.
Bank wants me to be able to put down 50% before they will authorize a loan, housing prices are going up faster than I can save
Only spend.
Me:
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We are not terrified of the cost of living or college for our kids we just hate children.
Fuckn sure, I just guess it’s true.
At this point, they’re just gaslighting us.
What millennials are experiencing is income inequality that started in 1970s, where income was siphoned off and distributed to the elites.
We were told to go to college, we could choose any career. We could be elite. That didn't work out so well. When we could save, we could only afford apts, not houses. Only 1/2 of my immediate peers had kids. Partly financial but mostly d/t waiting to launch.
The person who wrote that is just wrong or you're conflating the political REACTION to the 70s, which resulted in the overcorrection: Reaganism and 1980 recession.
judgmental boomers/gen x-ers can eat my entire ass tbh
No, it's not enough. It's not nearly enough. 100k is barely enough to *rent* a decent place in most cities, much less buy anything.
You’re right.
We’re so indoctrinated by neoliberalism and the delusion of perpetual growth that we brush off the idea that economic growth has indeed become one of the main criteria for progress (or pretty much anything else). The fleeting look at the mystery of socioeconomics is
The ship is sinking.
All the time, guys in their 50s 60s and 70s are walking around snarling "no gubmint is gonna tell ME what to do".
The cognitive dissonance is very loud here.
BOOMERS & GEN-XERS: Why can't these 30-somethings just grow up?
Then just about 5 years into your career, the bottom really fell out.
The wording of these articles is always so condescending
the whole point of this article is to say “fuck poor people” and that’s it. it shares no meaningful information.
and poor means anyone who isn’t the 1%
i've seen 60 and 70 year olds do straight up toddler shit
Please, continue.
"Why'd you make me hit you" economics
well, it's nice to not be forgotten, i guess.