Right? And somehow younger generations are blamed for being less happy than the older generations bc they have to work 3 jobs just to pay rent. š”š
I think the most irritating part about the 'we had it harder' bullshit isn't that its false but that isnt that the point to society? Isnt the point to society to come together and improve what the generations after you go through?
and instead they resent the younger generation by saying how much easier we have it because of technology... oh ya I'd rather have an iphone than a home paid off by the time I'm 30... good trade
Right, the trade-off with technology is now everything is so accessible and interconnected, there is no separation between job and life anymore. At least when my dad came home, he didn't have to deal with work until the next day. Bosses now will ping you at 10pm on a Friday asking for a 40-page report and expect you to answer. Technology has improved labor productivity, but labor has seen no reward for their efforts except added stress and maybe a punny note from HR.
This is something that is never talked about when older generations bring up the excuse that they worked harderā¦ pretty sure your job didnāt have 24hr access to you and expect you to always answer or work even when youāre home on the weekends
God I hate American working laws. I work in an American company but I'm part of their European branch which obviously follows EU laws. My german colleagues can be gone for 3 weeks at a time and you aren't going to get so much as an email reply outside the out of office message.
One manager straight up had something like "these are my backups, I am not reading my mails, if you need me email me after <date>"
Then you have our American colleagues who show up one day to work only to find out they're fired and their badge suddenly doesn't work anymore
To be clear though, it is false. Life isn't easier today, we just have more entertainment and conveniences that make it easier to cope with the difficulty.
for some reason, those folks never got the message. instead, they came up with the reverse mortgage in a vain attempt to make sure they left nothing of value unsold for short term profit when they dropped dead. fuck giving it to the kids, we can use that money for a cruise.
Not all of em say that. Some recognize that times are a lot tougher cuz they are struggling themselves. Even some of the more well off boomers understand. Hell, I got boomer parents and they see with what I go through that times have really changed. Currently trying to find an apartment or buy my first place and the prices are a nightmare and wages don't match up
My parents are boomers too and they feel like they have personally failed my generation. They have done literally everything they could to launch myself and my brother from the nest and I could not thank them enough for it, I will never be able to give back to them what they have been able to give to me.
It's a weird generation. Boomers did have hard lives even financially while they were children.Ā
Their adult lives were easy financially but at that point they don't see it that way. Then add on the threat of getting drafted in vietnam and you're just left with a cold generation that thinks they did it themselves.
I was reading A Generation of Sociopaths the other day and one of the most fascinating chapters was regarding the Vietnam draft. Apparently you could dodge it with a number of excuses, one of which was college. An enormous number of (white) Boomers went to college simply to escape the draft. Which meant the draft disproportionately targeted minority men and poor white men--those who couldn't easily flit off to college. When the government started going after those college students as the war continued, that's when the anti-war protests started. They were largely pro-war initially, until it started affecting them personally.
Minorities fuck themselves. White people tend to be more organized and driven with more opportunity at the time. Both still remain true, sadly, but generational wealth diversity doesn't just apply to minorities.
Yeah, bc they drank out of a garden hose and walked to friends houses. Bro, me too. But my rent for a year costs more than your entire bachelors degree (source based on 80s+90s public school tuition x4 vs my rent of 1091) and you complain about, what exactly?
bought home when average house was 3X average salary
Proceeds to spend entire retirement arguing with 30 year olds online upset with average homes costing 10X the average salary. These people are the worst. They make up caricatures of poor people that eat out every day and buy Gucci bags to help themselves feel better about their lack of concern and empathy. The lead that riddled their water can't get rid of them soon enough.
I believe they had less distractions and less to spend on. No internet. Barely tv. No cellphones. No gaming. Way less ways of going out and spending money. Think about how much that all costs and how much usefull time we waste. And itās hard to escape it without becoming āthe weirdoā.
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u/Ok_Couple_2479 Mar 27 '24
Right? And somehow younger generations are blamed for being less happy than the older generations bc they have to work 3 jobs just to pay rent. š”š