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re: Can anyone here admit that a lot of hardworking young people are fricked?
Posted on 11/22/25 at 10:42 am to Defenseiskey
Posted on 11/22/25 at 10:42 am to Defenseiskey
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So true, I was able to buy 5 duplexes by just giving up Starbucks and avocado toast.
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Posted on 11/22/25 at 10:43 am to Midtiger farm
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nafta
You're right. NAFTA caused my father in law's factory to close down.
Posted on 11/22/25 at 10:43 am to kayjay
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I started working at 13 and retired at 61 and living a very comfortable life.
Lmao yet another clueless geriatric who can’t read a room. You realize starting to work at 13 is virtually impossible because it’s fricking illegal? Lmao.
And I say this as a successful 38 year old. I’m not saying hard work ethic isn’t important because it definitely is. The point you boomers refuse to acknowledge is that younger professionals do not have the buying power that you did.
This post was edited on 11/22/25 at 11:08 am
Posted on 11/22/25 at 10:46 am to Chef Curry
If you hustle you are fine
One of my baws sells fricking furniture and makes 6 figures. No college degree. But he is a people person and is good at it
Kids are entitled and want a job making 6 figures surfing TD all day
One of my baws sells fricking furniture and makes 6 figures. No college degree. But he is a people person and is good at it
Kids are entitled and want a job making 6 figures surfing TD all day
This post was edited on 11/22/25 at 10:47 am
Posted on 11/22/25 at 10:46 am to Dawgfanman
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What’s inaccurate? That many parents of Boomers were in WW2? It’s literally the reason for the Baby Boom. That most people in the 70s and 80s didn’t have degrees and management jobs? Most people today don’t have degrees, it was much less common then. That Trades, manufacturing, construction can’t find young people to fill jobs that pay livable wages? This is easily verifiable. Fact is this, life is more expensive, but the above are all options that young people seem to largely ignore or view as undesirable and each can lead to a better life than they have today.
Let’s start with the argument was to join the military like boomers did and then you immediately change to say boomers parents served in WWII.
How are young people ignoring trades? Most manufacturing jobs shifted elsewhere thanks to NAFTA if I’m not mistaken, so how is that young people’s fault? Boomers sold their futures right out from under them. In fact, those young people faced more undesirable outcomes from that as their communities fell into poverty as factories, once the major employers, are forced to close and move overseas. Who made these policy decisions and supported and voted for the politicians? Boomers and their parents. Saying that young people don’t want to work manufacturing jobs is the ignorant short-sided murmuring of a fool. Even if those jobs were available in the same numbers, they would still be inherently less valuable than they were for boomers based on all the factors such as inflation. Plus the fact that boomers take longer to retire because they live longer and need to work longer based on all these negative economic events that disproportionately affect younger people who don’t have the means to recover. So, yeah. Tell me again how much harder you had it and that young people just need to join the military or work a trade.
Posted on 11/22/25 at 10:46 am to Cosmo
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want a job making 6 figures surfing TD all day
where would one apply for said job?
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Posted on 11/22/25 at 10:50 am to Greenside
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I think the main thing is recognizing that there is a problem.
No doubt. But aren’t some of the kids of boomers grabbing inheritances right now?
(FTR, I am whatever you call the generation after boomers, and my only inheritance is funeral expenses.)
I think this is creating some significant inequities among the echo generation.
Posted on 11/22/25 at 10:55 am to Chef Curry
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Lmao yet another clueless geriatric who can’t read a room. You realize starting to work at 13 is virtually impossible because it’s fricking illegal? Lmao.
Wrong as frick and a perfect example of your fricked up attitude.
I mowed lawns at 10 years old in my neighborhood. Today I see 18 year olds look outside their windows at other people doing it.
Today’s work ethic is shite. Total crap and yall want it all just because you have a piece of paper. I know plenty of people with paper who don’t make shite because they are lazy. You cry and cry and cry. STFU and do something about it. Cut your spending, pivot your career choice, etc.
You can’t say I knew my chosen profession wouldn’t make me rich and then be jealous of those that are rich.
Just STFU and be a month to month cry baby bitch if you’re not gonna do anything about it.
After I retired (at 54), I still learn about different ways of making money but it’s more passive at my age. I actually make more now than before I retired. I didn’t just prop my feet up and mindlessly watch some college football game that doesn’t mean frick.
This post was edited on 11/22/25 at 10:58 am
Posted on 11/22/25 at 10:56 am to Cosmo
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If you hustle you are fine
Correct, but you still don’t have the buying power that the boomers enjoyed. I feel that now at 38 with two small kids in private school/daycare plus the never ending cost increases of groceries, insurance, etc.
If I was currently 28 in today’s market, I wouldn’t have what I did have at 28 ten years ago. It’s beyond frustrating how so many boomers can’t grasp or understand this concept.
Posted on 11/22/25 at 10:59 am to Chef Curry
You pivot and move on. Can’t understand why you can’t grasp that concept.
Posted on 11/22/25 at 11:01 am to Chef Curry
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It’s beyond frustrating how so many boomers can’t grasp or understand this concept.
Why the frick does it matter to you if you think we can’t grasp the concept? If we did, would that change anything for you?
frick no!
Ok fine. Cry. I agree with you. Poor baby. You finished yet? Because you are still in the same place.
This post was edited on 11/22/25 at 11:03 am
Posted on 11/22/25 at 11:01 am to Chef Curry
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Lmao yet another clueless geriatric who can’t read a room. You realize starting to work at 13 is virtually impossible because it’s fricking illegal? Lmao.
Many people in their sixties were working before the legal age of 15, me included, so you are incorrect on this point.
Posted on 11/22/25 at 11:02 am to DonJuanDaMiles
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Let’s start with the argument was to join the military like boomers did and then you immediately change to say boomers parents served in WWII.
Ummmm, here is what I said….maybe you should pay attention.
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Go start your young life like many of the Boomers parents did, in the Military.
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How are young people ignoring trades? Most manufacturing jobs shifted elsewhere thanks to NAFTA if I’m not mistaken,
There are 400,000 currently open manufacturing jobs in the USA they average of $106,000 in pay and benefits.
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Saying that young people don’t want to work manufacturing jobs is the ignorant short-sided murmuring of a fool. Even if those jobs were available in the same numbers, they would still be inherently less valuable than they were for boomers based on all the factors such as inflation. Plus the fact that boomers take longer to retire because they live longer and need to work longer based on all these negative economic events that disproportionately affect younger people who don’t have the means to recover. So, yeah. Tell me again how much harder you had it and that young people just need to join the military or work a trade.
This is a buncha babble. I never said I had it harder, just that people who whine about how hard they have it, who aren’t doing well, have the options I laid out which led to the better lives many of their parents and grandparents enjoy.
Posted on 11/22/25 at 11:06 am to UptownJoeBrown
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UptownJoeBrown
Lmao you are one delusional “yelling at the clouds” old man.
I’m not denying that there are lazy people out there. You self righteous geriatrics pretend like lazy people didn’t exist in your day when they assuredly did.
I worked a full time job during college and graduated with zero debt. Don’t talk to me about work ethic.
Again, so many geriatrics like you refuse to acknowledge that money is worth less than it was “back in your day.”
Posted on 11/22/25 at 11:09 am to Dawgfanman
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This is a buncha babble. I never said I had it harder, just that people who whine about how hard they have it, who aren’t doing well, have the options I laid out which led to the better lives many of their parents and grandparents enjoy.
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Go start your young life like many of the Boomers parents did, in the Military.
That’s even worse!! You’re an idiot. Nice option you laid out for everyone with your superior intellect. Thanks for solving this issue for us. To all the millions who are struggling, let the military take them all in and let’s increase that defense budget to take on all the people who the tax payers now have to shelter, feed, and train and then we can offload them into a workforce that can’t accept the vast majority of them because we haven’t created any new industries or options for them other than the military and have a bunch of homeless veterans with mental and physical disabilities. And furthermore, let’s highlight that we need a world war where a good number of them will die. Sounds like a solid option for the youth.
Posted on 11/22/25 at 11:11 am to Chef Curry
OK fine. I agree with everything you say. Happy now? So what are you gonna do about it?
This post was edited on 11/22/25 at 11:12 am
Posted on 11/22/25 at 11:12 am to DonJuanDaMiles
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That’s even worse!! You’re an idiot. Nice option you laid out for everyone with your superior intellect. Thanks for solving this issue for us. To all the millions who are struggling, let the military take them all in and let’s increase that defense budget to take on all the people who the tax payers now have to shelter, feed, and train and then we can offload them into a workforce that can’t accept the vast majority of them because we haven’t created any new industries or options for them other than the military and have a bunch of homeless veterans with mental and physical disabilities. And furthermore, let’s highlight that we need a world war where a good number of them will die. Sounds like a solid option for the youth.
You’re right. Manufacturing jobs paying a liveable wage and benefits, the military and all its benefits, and construction jobs…these are not available options to young people. You got me. Their only option is to move to a city, rent an apartment, and look for a job that either doesn’t exist or is going away..while bitching about it on the internet and calling their betters (that’s me) ignorant. Got it.
You won dude.
This post was edited on 11/22/25 at 11:15 am
Posted on 11/22/25 at 11:14 am to Defenseiskey
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only people I know who have unrealistic expectations like this are spoiled upper middle class white girls
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Do any of yall really talk to people outside your bubble?
Is this the bubble calling itself fat?
It is not just spoiled upper middle class white girls. Where have you been with women of all colors and statuses during the "6 feet, 6 figures, 6 pack," trend? It's black girls that make $50k driving used C class MBs, it's Latinas driving 9 year old Altimas with five inch long nails... Almost always certainly created by daddies that never said no.
Posted on 11/22/25 at 11:27 am to UptownJoeBrown
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OK fine. I agree with everything you say. Happy now? So what are you gonna do about it?
Dude, you're about 10 years from getting ss and Medicare and have no family
you're going to be a total drain on society without contributing one thing to it
so you should stfu
Posted on 11/22/25 at 11:29 am to Defenseiskey
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Do any of yall really talk to people outside your bubble? Seems like a lot of you are chronically online because yall repeat the same social media tropes over and over again.
Quite a bit, actually. And I’ve walked a mess of young folks through first purchases.
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