re: “They’re Repulsive” - Tucker’s Rant on How Baby Boomers Betrayed Gen Z.

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Are you effing kidding me? Set aside the economic stupidity inherent in Kirk's claim. It is Marxist critical theory personified, folks.

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You should listen to the entire podcast. CK make some really good points especially in terms of the unregulated Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) companies that are financially strapping Gen Z and Gen Alpha. Companies like Affirm, Sezzle, Afterpay, PayPal AfterPay, etc.

These type of companies are predatory. There is a moral way to conduct usury, especially when you are trying to solve a problem and both sides of the equation benefit. These BNPL companies are taking advantage of ignorance and strapping a lot of young people with fees and debt. The moral way for an adult to address a young person's desire to attend a Taylor Swift concert to say, Work Now Then Pay for the next Taylor Swift concert instead of Buy Now and Pay Later and go to this year's Taylor Swift concert.

These youth that are falling victim to these predatory type lenders will turn radical and eventually vote the way you do not want. Teach your kids about these companies.

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These youth that are falling victim to these predatory type lenders will turn radical and eventually vote the way you do not want. Teach your kids about these companies.

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Predatory lenders have always been a thing. It’s just that older generations had the common sense to avoid them. The kids today use them to pay for door dash and other mindless crap.

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These type of companies are predatory. There is a moral way to conduct usury, especially when you are trying to solve a problem and both sides of the equation benefit. These BNPL companies are taking advantage of ignorance and strapping a lot of young people with fees and debt. The moral way for an adult to address a young person's desire to attend a Taylor Swift concert to say, Work Now Then Pay for the next Taylor Swift concert instead of Buy Now and Pay Later and go to this year's Taylor Swift concert.

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This is bullshite, and why the younger generation is said to have a victim complex.

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Predatory lenders have always been a thing. It’s just that older generations had the common sense to avoid them. The kids today use them to pay for door dash and other mindless crap.

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Right.

In the old days you had to drive to the brick and mortar building. There was still a lot of space between stimuli and action and for most people that gave them time to reassess their actions.

Today it's just a couple of clicks on your cell phone. There is very little space between stimuli and action.

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I'm convinced these retards were breast fed until they started high school.

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They wouldn't know what to do with a set of tits.

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Today it's just a couple of clicks on your cell phone. There is very little space between stimuli and action.

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So you’re saying the current generation lacks impulse control? No shite. So let’s create a more nanny state so little Paisleigh doesn’t get herself in a financial predicament.

I'll tell you about a "boomer". He was born in the early 50s, the youngest of four kids, to a family that didn't have much......most people would call them poor. His dad and mother scratched together enough money to buy a few acres where his dad build a three room house that they all lived in, three boys, one girl, and their parents. That "boomer" went to work in the fields as soon as he was old enough to walk, a little white boy......working to chop cotton, pick cotton, haul cotton, etc. He got paid a half wage, which was hald of nearly nothing. When he was 10 of 11 years old he got a job working at a filling station/general store while still doing his field work. He hustled, raised a small garden of his own and sold the produce at the store, raised a few chickens and rabbits to sell to the folks in town who also didn't have much. He kept this up through his school years, just like most of his peers in the area.

He came out of the field in 1969 making three dollars a day. There was an industrial boom on in the area, and one of his brothers helped him get a job at a plant where he hired in making three dollars an hour. He thought he was rich! That plant was during the early days of chemical production, which basically meant that this man wound up in the hospital several times over a few years before he was able to transfer to a safer part of the plant. He worked 12 hour swings, and hustled on his days off, barely sleeping for years. He got married, had a couple of kids. To make sure they had everything they needed he took a second job driving a truck on his days off, hauling insulation. He mostly taught himself how to repair appliances and scrapped together enough money to get a guy to owner finance a building where he opened a business. He, along with an older gentleman, ran that business at the same he worked his plant job and hauled insulation. His kids got older, and he still managed to somehow stay involved in their baseball, softball, dance, whatever they were into and be there when he was needed. He made sure his wife was secure and felt loved.

He worked that plant job for 46 years on 12 hour swings. After a 30 years he was able to get a straight days job there, which he loved even if his sleep habits were shot to shite. He retired and had little business to run, a modest home, and no debt. He saved pretty well for retirement, though. That retirement didn't last long, unfortunately. A few years after he stopped punching the clock he was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gherig's Disease), the doctors said it wasn't genetic and probably came from his chemical exposure over the years. He died within a year of his diagnosis, leaving behind a couple of grown kids, his wife, all of his brothers and sisters.

I'd like to see you pussies in this thread say some the shite you're saying to that man. He wouldn't have tolerated it.



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So you’re saying the current generation lacks impulse control? No shite. So let’s create a more nanny state so little Paisleigh doesn’t get herself in a financial predicament.

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Or maybe the BNPL companies should be regulated along the same lines that banks are regulated. That was CK's point.

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21 year olds are paying taxes to fund $800 social security checks to 70+ year old multi-millionaire boomer


Means test SS. Boom, problem solved.

Are you wanting to exclude 21 year olds from doing the same things we had to do?

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I'm surprised this^^^ hasn't happened yet. Same thing with lifting the payroll cap on Social Security. Those two things alone would help to shore up social security. If they means test social security based on total net worth I could be in the crosshairs.

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You should listen to the entire podcast. CK make some really good points especially in terms of the unregulated Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) companies that are financially strapping Gen Z and Gen Alpha. Companies like Affirm, Sezzle, Afterpay, PayPal AfterPay, etc.

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None of those being "Boomer Enterprises," quite the opposite in fact, I guess I'm struggling to make the connection.