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why are you yelling
"I'll show him, the smart ass!"fucking hate this shit so much. Older folk in both Booms and Xers can't STAND to see someone younger be more efficient than them. At every job I've had, if you were young and effective, they would see it as a challenge to find more work for you
Boomers can't understand basic concepts like inflation and the passage of time
I think it's an ego thingThis is something that keeps haunting me. Talk to a boomer, they talk about how little money they got when they started working. I put it into an inflation calculator, and lo and behold, it's way more than starting wages nowadays. But apparently grasping inflation, just like conditional hypotheticals, seems to filter out everyone under +2sd intelligence.
Boomers can't understand basic concepts like inflation and the passage of time

I remember when the whole "forgiving college debt" debate flared up again and all the boom booms got up in arms saying "We don't owe you anything, why should we pay for your college!!" being met with "Okay, if you don't owe us anything and won't help pay for things, then we don't owe you any social security". That's the best response to them imo. The door swings both ways. You don't get a 20-30 year vacation just because you exist and are by all accounts, a corpse. Especially if you've alienated a fuck load of the people who would be taking care of you otherwise.I've noticed that boomers believe that saying "the struggling youth shouldn't be giving the richest generation free money" is a form of Communism
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Boomers be like "I paid off my $1,000 in college debt, it's only fair you have to pay off your $40,000 in college debt."I remember when the whole "forgiving college debt" debate flared up again and all the boom booms got up in arms saying "We don't owe you anything, why should we pay for your college!!" being met with "Okay, if you don't owe us anything and won't help pay for things, then we don't owe you any social security". That's the best response to them imo. The door swings both ways. You don't get a 20-30 year vacation just because you exist and are by all accounts, a corpse. Especially if you've alienated a fuck load of the people who would be taking care of you otherwise.
I'm a fan of college debt forgiveness but you take the money out of the college's endowment fund.I remember when the whole "forgiving college debt" debate flared up again and all the boom booms got up in arms saying "We don't owe you anything, why should we pay for your college!!" being met with "Okay, if you don't owe us anything and won't help pay for things, then we don't owe you any social security". That's the best response to them imo. The door swings both ways. You don't get a 20-30 year vacation just because you exist and are by all accounts, a corpse. Especially if you've alienated a fuck load of the people who would be taking care of you otherwise.
There is also the fact there is plenty of 25,000$-45,000$ jobs, aka wage slave jobs, but beyond that things get sparse. Most jobs beyond 50k now seem to be either some bullshit where some old boomer fuck won't let go after working for 40 years because they blew their life savings on their 60th birthday trip to Vegas or the hirer is looking for the least qualified person as possible to save a few bucks.Talking to my Boomer mom over Christmas.
I told her how the younger generation, the grandkids' generation is going to just be an angry mess. She goes on a lot about "pulling up by the bootstraps" and all and I hate hearing it. The hurdles in the way of the younger generation are absolutely massive. My mom dropped out of school and managed to get a small business running by her mid 20s. That became a decently successful career for her. Doing that is still possible but when she did it the spectre of online orders and cheap everything didn't even exist yet. By the time it did she had firm roots in our small town and survived it. She just closed shop (didn't sell the business) when she wanted to retire and liquidated everything. When my grandparents died she inherited several million dollars then tries to give me stonk advice when she knows less than nothing about the stock market. But likes to pretend she does and talk down to me about it for some reason.
But today you have Stanford computer science graduates who can't even get jobs due to priority hiring of "international students" transitioning straight into work visas. Her solution to that is that the American kid who went to Stanford should just go work construction. That it's all their fault and can't understand the growing sentiment of fuck it, burn it all down coming from the older Gen Zs.
Not many people in my social circle are homeowners, so I never knew how bad it really was until one of my friends and his fiance tried buying a house for the first time a couple years ago. They did everything "right" with having a good amount for the down payment, both had high paying careers, high credit scores, little to no debt other than the coming mortgage, and so on.Mr. Cheese and I are trying (and failing) to buy a first home, and the trouble is that the buyers are actually flippers who bring in 20k double fistfuls of cash from their previous "investments" and pull the rug out from under us.