Young people SHOULD “have it easier” than you did. I’m sorry you got the strap up hill both ways and paid your debts with pounds of flesh, but the reason we work for progress is to make growing up and growing old gentler, easier, kinder, freer. Struggle isn’t necessary in a healthy society.
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Imma need that on a t-shirt
Besides, just because I don't have to slave in the fields like my great grandparents doesn't mean things still aren't hard.
They're just different.
My 20 year old has never struggled, but we have made sure that she sees life through a lens of empathy and compassion. She still has a work ethic and wants to help people, not because she suffered, but because of the morals we instilled in her.
Arbitrariness just for its own sake isn't
But then there seem to be a lot of people who grew up getting the belt both ways uphill and twice on Sundays who have are now the most fragile human beings incapable of an ounce of remorse or empathy, so maybe it isn't helpful anyways
They inherited THE finest economic status in US history but let greed to screw us over
And keep on
This is actual fact too
Not exaggerated either
Which makes this more sad
But
It's mostly cooperations and politicians to blame
And if you think others should go thru hell just because you did and you "turned out fine", you did not in fact turn out fine. It is not normal or fine to wish harm on others.
Spite, anger, malicion? That's very not normal to have towards kids for being happy. 😭
I'm jealous that my son is gonna grow up with at least 1 loving parent.
But also he's 2 months and already thinks I'm mentally impaired with how he looks at me. 😭 Kids are mean.
I once microwaved a pot to see if I could... TURNS OUT I CAN! But the handles *burn* (I should not be a mother, do not try that at home.)
Now they're just new blood to carry our old sins. What a load of crock.
"Those who forget their past are doomed to repeat it."
Why? Because we humans are creatures of habit, as are our societies, as are all animal societies. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
*kids have better lives than they did*
“hey what the hell you entitled little punks”
That's the whole thing. You don't let the old and sick ones get eaten by wolves because it Makes The Herd Stronger, it's just the reality of your entire species being delicious to wolves. So, y'know. Get fucking trampling! Make circles!!
*kids have a better life*
Sadly, in very many (not all) ways, they have it worse.
and that was a light bulb moment.
She's been dead for 13 years & I'm still unpacking her narcissism. My mission as a parent has always been to give them everything I never had.
What did you fight for!!! Why would you want those you love to experience the same struggle.
That kind of bitterness has Never made sense to me.😶
If kids today have it easier than I did, I'll have to address my traumas instead of normalizing them away! And then I'd have to acknowledge that while I complained and passed them on, other people worked to fix them!
I can't have that!
I'm GenX, and I see plenty about Zoomers that I don't like, but with social media pressure, environmental degradation, increased cost of living, growing political and economic uncertainty and more, so nah, they don't have it easier.
iPhones, though, so...cool?
Did I say amazing? I meant terrifying. It's like we hit an evolutionary ceiling of some kind.
The elites have seen, have been, and continue to be afraid of the populace getting more educated and becoming class-aware, so they've been hard at work dismantling *everything* and dividing the poor in order to keep everyone dumb and stupid.
Of course most of today's youth don't have the gumption for that.
Forcing the same struggles onto the next generation is appalling.
In her defense, she worked(and saved) from 13 years old. She stayed at home thru most of her bachelor's degree.
Most kids these days have never lived in a house their parents owned.
I'm picking the first option every time.
If we didn't, we'd still be living in caves and using leeches to cure the sick.
It’s one job. With a whole lot of stuff to do!
...but how strong should a child really have to be?
It's like parents that bully their kids to prepare them for later. It's not preparation unless you help them clap back. You're just normalizing the treatment otherwise. Those parents hate "back talk".
I just prefer everything to keep being easier to deal with....the only time things should be difficult is because they were made to be difficult.
Every person going “You kids don’t know how easy you have it! In my time…” is just jealous and bitter.
I also know privileged people,who never had to fight for anything, and as a rule they lack those traits.
Of course not.
I believe it's a big factor.
At school someone started a rumor I was gay. For some time I was abused verbally and physically. My empathy for marginalized people generally and for gay people specifically is a direct result of that experience.
When will we overcome?
Right here and now my struggling end
Prosperity from now on