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re: Great YT video "How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future"
Posted on 5/7/24 at 9:56 am to DrrTiger
Posted on 5/7/24 at 9:56 am to DrrTiger
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Millennials and zoomers went 65% for Biden in 2020. And it’s looking like he’ll get your vote in 2024 also.
So I guess your generation isn’t too upset with the status quo.
Only like 10% of millennials/Z voted in the last election cycle. It's a complete fallacy that young people turn out to vote. It's been true for a long time actually.
The largest voting block by a significant margin is the 50+ crowd and most of them are likely voting to gatekeep their assets/wealth.
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Posted on 5/7/24 at 9:57 am to JiminyCricket
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Remind me again, who raised that generation you seem to hate so much?
Ah, there it is. Even your voting mistakes aren’t really your fault. Nice.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 9:57 am to Saunson69
What is the fix for all this complaining? I'm Gen X - the disengaged generation, so have no sympathy for Boomers. That being said, I don't think we should act like the current economic problems for younger generations were so obviously predictable and the Boomers made decisions based on malice. Each tax they avoided, each rental property they bought, etc. was individually a good and obvious financial decision for themselves and their families that anyone would have made. Kids on here talking like it was a generation of Hitlers consciously burning their children's futures. Other than killing them (too much "good riddance" on here) or taking all their money, what should we do?
Posted on 5/7/24 at 9:57 am to Saunson69
Some of it is insightful, some of it is stupid. But he’s dead-on about the Ivy schools and their endowments:
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Harvard isn’t a college. It’s a hedge fund that offers classes
Posted on 5/7/24 at 9:58 am to DrrTiger
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Ah, there it is. Even your parenting mistakes aren’t really your fault. Nice.
FIFY
Less than half of people 18-29 even voted in 2016. Try again to blame shift.
This post was edited on 5/7/24 at 10:00 am
Posted on 5/7/24 at 9:58 am to DrrTiger
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Here. I’ll tell you since you don’t want to. Millennials and zoomers went 65% for Biden in 2020. And it’s looking like he’ll get your vote in 2024 also.
So I guess your generation isn’t too upset with the status quo.
Young people have always voted liberal, in general.
Look at how the Boomers were behaving in the 60's and 70's.
This post was edited on 5/7/24 at 10:00 am
Posted on 5/7/24 at 10:01 am to DrrTiger
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Ah, there it is. Even your voting mistakes aren’t really your fault. Nice.
Are you really that retarded?
The politicians in DC do not have as much of an impact on your everyday life as do your local city council, mayor, and the 75-year-old retired lady who goes to every city council meeting to lobby against shite like new apartments and housing.
Also, young people don't vote in large enough numbers to swing elections. Old people drive elections and this has always been the case.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 10:01 am to SidewalkTiger
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Young people have always voted liberal, in general.
And large portions of them don't vote anyway.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 10:02 am to jclem11
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Are you really that retarded?
The politicians in DC do not have as much of an impact on your everyday life as do your local city council, mayor, and the 75-year-old retired lady who goes to every city council meeting to lobby against shite like new apartments and housing.
Also, young people don't vote in large enough numbers to swing elections. Old people drive elections and this has always been the case.
I don't think he's retarded at all. I think he just refuses to acknowledge the truth and the data in front of him because he's so married to a narrative.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 10:02 am to JiminyCricket
quote:Still does.
No, my position is that cooking meals at home use to save you exponential amounts of money and inflation relative to groceries has shrunken that gap significantly.
Example: 8oz sirloin at Outback. Picked that because like steak.
Cost at Outback, including tax and $5 tip - $29.45.
Cost for me to grill it at home, including factoring in the cost of the grill which I’ll get hundreds of uses from (yes I even added $2 for the bread they bring you if you ask) - $17.29. One meal, 40% less cost.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 10:03 am to SidewalkTiger
Since Ive been alive, there has been a D in the Oval for 4 more years than a R. There was a R the 8 previous before my birth. Congress has seen similar partisan splits.
This notion of you vote Republican and therefore are blameless...
This notion of you vote Republican and therefore are blameless...
Posted on 5/7/24 at 10:04 am to dcw7g
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What is the fix for all this complaining? I'm Gen X - the disengaged generation, so have no sympathy for Boomers. That being said, I don't think we should act like the current economic problems for younger generations were so obviously predictable and the Boomers made decisions based on malice. Each tax they avoided, each rental property they bought, etc. was individually a good and obvious financial decision for themselves and their families that anyone would have made. Kids on here talking like it was a generation of Hitlers consciously burning their children's futures. Other than killing them (too much "good riddance" on here) or taking all their money, what should we do?
There really isn't a fix, it is what it is at this point.
The problem is many boomers won't even acknowledge it's tougher now and will tell the young people to just work harder, just as you're seeing in this thread.
Conversely, many young people will just whine and complain instead of accepting the reality and figuring out a way to succeed.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 10:06 am to DrrTiger
You are undoubtedly the biggest moron in this thread. You haven’t attempted to make a single point that isn’t the most outrageous strawman possible. You and poochie are two peas in a giant geezer pod.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 10:08 am to llfshoals
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till does.
Example: 8oz sirloin at Outback. Picked that because like steak.
Cost at Outback, including tax and $5 tip - $29.45.
Cost for me to grill it at home, including factoring in the cost of the grill which I’ll get hundreds of uses from (yes I even added $2 for the bread they bring you if you ask) - $17.29. One meal, 40% less cost.
Did you include the charcoal? Did you include the propane? What about seasonings? Marinades if needed?
I even said earlier, yes it it cheaper to cook at home in many cases. My point is that if you cut $200 out of your food budget by eating at home instead of eating out back in the 90's, that would be akin to a $400-$500 savings today.
It's not that big a savings anymore.
This post was edited on 5/7/24 at 10:09 am
Posted on 5/7/24 at 10:14 am to dcw7g
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Each tax they avoided, each rental property they bought, etc. was individually a good and obvious financial decision for themselves and their families that anyone would have made. Kids on here talking like it was a generation of Hitlers consciously burning their children's futures. Other than killing them (too much "good riddance" on here) or taking all their money, what should we do?
It's not that initial investment that's the problem, it's the boomer protectionist programs that have followed making the barrier to entry even higher.
This isn't exclusive to real estate.
As you can see even in this video the UCLA and Cal-Berkeley academic standards were much lower when he was attending college, and then boomer systems/programs that put the government in charge of universities led to these same universities raising standards tenfold.
What's another connection? Opening up universities to anyone who can pay. Now foreign students outnumber US students even at ivy league universities. That's been true for awhile.
Xi Jinpings daughter went to Harvard but Johnny Smith from Atlanta, Georgia with the same academics gets rejected because he's a "white male".
Also boomers selling their properties/land to foreign investors, sending manufacturing offshore, H1B visa scams, ending employment training, etc.
All legacies of the boomers.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 10:14 am to Louie T
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You are undoubtedly the biggest moron in this thread.
I have to say… What your generation lacks in grit and perseverance, you certainly make up for in big mouths and general unlikability.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 10:41 am to DrrTiger
There are certainly plenty of lazy millennials with self-inflicted wounds, but my generation hardly has a monopoly on it.
This post was edited on 5/7/24 at 10:43 am
Posted on 5/7/24 at 11:06 am to DrrTiger
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What your generation lacks in grit and perseverance, you certainly make up for in big mouths and general unlikability.
Seen a boomer have to wait on their server for more than 45 seconds lately? Holler back at me about entitlement and unlikability then.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 11:12 am to Saunson69
Umm
This post was edited on 5/15/24 at 8:24 am
Posted on 5/7/24 at 11:20 am to Woolfpack
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i think a big part of the problem is that everything seems like a gamble nowadays. Back in the 50s it was a no brainer to buy a starter home or go to college or just get a job at the factory and show up on time and retire from that job 40 years later. Health care, vacations, weekend barbecues retirement were available to everyone who took a job.
How many of those things seem obvious for a 20 year old now? Even as an adult I really cant say for sure any of these would be the right move for a 20 year old.
Let’s not mention getting married and having a couple kids at 20.
Things aren’t what they used to be.
My wife and I aren't sure that we want to have kids but we certainly won't have them in this economy. The days of a father with a HS diploma working a career for 40 years while his wife was a homemaker raising 3 kids are over. You just can't do it anymore on any large scale.
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