Landscapers make a fucken killing.
No more than it’s your fault for not changing it right now.
I wanna be a horse trainer sooooo bad. But it doesn’t pay the bills. So I’m stuck fixing computers and dealing with idiots from 7:30-4 (and sometimes later) Monday through Friday.
I get my horse time after work and on weekends
I mean, the world works this way even before late stage capitalism. You have to do things that bring value to others to survive, you can’t just do what you think is fun all the time.
If you happen to love building houses, youll be set for life. Thats a skill we will always need. Some people are born lucky this way.
If your idea of fun is fixing old consoles and CRT TVs, sorry to say, you won’t make a living on that. Or if you enjoy music, good luck making a real living doing it especially today.
Thats why the ideal society wouldn’t tie work money to hobbies. You could live decently as a musician and a part time teacher if we had ubi and affordable housing.
It’s a class war, not an age war. Also, it’s mostly republicans and a few democrats that made the unions not as strong.
Guess which age group tends to be overrepresented in that upper class, and how recently a large portion of that class joined the group?
And that does not even get into the old fucks in Congress making all the decisions they’ll never have to consider because they’ll be dead by the time consequences catch up.
They are separate… but the two are also very linked currently.
That’s an american problem. Should have teem limits on Congress. Shocker they didn’t pass that when they passed the presidential one. And bull shit its an age thing there are tons of younger people who support this shit. Vance isn’t a Bloomer none of those plastic women trump has are booomers kirks wife iantba boomer. So if your so dumb to think this well die with the boomers their is not Mich hope for you.
Where did I imply this shit show would go away when the boomers die off? Nowhere.
They’re the ones making the decisions NOW. They are the problem NOW. We can deal with their brainwashed children after we get them off the damned shifter, get it out of reverse, and them the fuck out of the way of the country’s future.
That group is overrepresented everywhere as there were twice as many of them as anybody else. There’s a reason they were called baby boomers.
No, it is just a result of how power and political office works in the US in particular. There are new generations of fascists ready to take over when the old ones die off, the mechanisms which perpetuate this has nothing to do with age.
Yes. I’ve started seeing more content online in an European context as well pushing an age war perspective. Need to start countering it.
Sure populations are aging here but the poorly worded economic arguments infuriate. I could even say… They have no class.
Yes, but also boomers are also victims of the same system they haven’t created. Don’t forget about it, just for us not to turn into them
Survivorship Bias. The boomers alive today are the ones that weren’t killed by wars, pollution, and poverty
Ex-fucking-zaxtly. My mom was a lifelong progressive, hippie movement participant, and generally cool as fuck badass mofo, but because of her birth year she got lumped in with the boomer politics jokes. She got it, she knew why they existed and what they were actually lambasting. But it hurt her to see what she thought of as a generation of protest and activism go down as a generation of right wing bullshit. She passed away in April, due to myriad health reasons that pretty all boil down to “near life long poverty” as the root cause.
Thats the funny thing people loop them all together because the rich. But this was the generation that protested. People are to dumb to realize its the wealth not when they where born. But whatever the rich keep us fighting amongst ourselves cause it works for them and people fall foe it all the time. I keen its been working for 400 plus years.
I’m really sorry for your loss. Your mom sounds like a cool, badass chick and I’m sorry that she was the victim of this bullshit system.
Thank you. I was her caregiver for many, many years, and we were closer than I have ever been or likely ever will be with anyone else. Lady was straight up fucking amazing
Ex-fucking-zaxtly. My mom was a lifelong progressive, hippie movement participant, and generally cool as fuck badass mofo, but because of her birth year she got lumped in with the boomer politics jokes. She got it, she knew why they existed and what they were actually lambasting. But it hurt her to see what she thought of as a generation of protest and activism go down as a generation of right wing bullshit. She passed away in April, due to myriad health reasons that pretty all boil down to “near life long poverty” as the root cause.
This is actually your fault, btw
Boomers haven’t been a voting majority in over a decade. JD Vance is a Vice President by, of, and for millennials.
That’s the funny thing. Millennials are the biggest Coting block but nope not their fault its the shrinking boomers. I also think people don’t realize how old millebials and gen x are now.
All the kids are screaming at everyone to vote for the lesser of two evils. That’s what we’ve all been doing for the past 80 years. Look where it got us.
We could have had Bernie, but one comment made by someone killed it: “Bernie is unelectable.” That’s all it took for people to run scared.
Fear is the most powerful emotion, and fear is how we are corralled, like pigs or chickens.
Sort of. Millennials are mostly overworked and miss out on primaries. Boomers still have a lot of sway in politics because they have the time and money to go to political events.
Funny how its always boomers even 20/years ago. They had time then also? Or is it possible people who have money have the time and they’re all shitty.
Like boomers didn’t hold down multiple jobs at once. Lol
Us millenials aren’t a ton better than the boomers or gen x
it’s kinda sad hearing from recruiters, doesn’t matter how cool and dynamic the position is that they’re trying to fill, i’m not at the point in my life where I can take a 3$/hr pay cut to switch to a contract role
in a society where your worth is measured by how much money you have, you’re insulting my face by lowballing me
$3/hr plus all the benefits usually if you’re contract… It’s not a $3, cut it’s more like $10.
There’s a character in Star Trek named Boothby. He is a ground keeper for Starfleet Academy that gives wisdom out to cadets that get pass his gruff exterior. I’d be Boothby in a heartbeat.
Relevant: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
It’s actually the fault of the debt, and out inability to borrow like we used to. Before we had so much capital we could spend on that things, but now we have so much debt those days are over.
Not saying we sold go back to that system of borrowing and lending debt, because we would have the same outcome, but we sold all understand the America was if life was funded by debt.
Now only speculative income jobs like AI learning, data centers, and actually productive gdp jobs life construction, lineman, ect earn money because we don’t have debt to pay for non productive jobs like we used to.
Is only going to get worse btw, and it’s specially going to get real bad for female dominated field as they are the highest risk of being replaced by AI or cut due to budget shortfalls.
Those jobs never paid well. Stop blaming one specific generation for 10,000 years of civilization not giving you a nice house.
Yeah inflation is a thing, prices are rising fast. But we’re here on Lemmy casually blaming old people instead of private equity companies, the ultra rich, and greedy mofo’s of any age…
You’re either a child, or incompetent if you think it’s anywhere near that simple.
The simplicity is picking some advertiser created “generation” and blaming your problems on them. Boomers are dying off in droves. What will the next group to hate be?
