re: This is why millennials are unhappy

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3. As teenagers in HS we always looked for MW jobs that involved more pleasant working conditions. My brother got a job scrubbing the inside of oil tanks. I got a job in radio. I won.

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First summer job was cutting grass on a fence row with a sling blade, and baling hay. The next summer I painted the interiors of apartments in a housing project. No AC, but it was out of the sun, I didn’t think life could get any better.

i hate how these threads turn into minimum wage debates

i almost think the fight for 15 and whatnot is a psyop

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Throughout we rigorously stuck to our personal budget where even an extra $10 per month was huge. As with you EA6B, we didn’t think life could get any better.

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Some of my best times in life, were when I was poor as isht. Not that I'd want to do it again, but, I'd be pizzed if someone denied me the experiences I had. At least now in retrospect.

Hard days. But very satisfying in the end.

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In terms of our happiness living $2$ in our 600sq ft apt, I'm not sure we were that far off. Would a millennial feel the same? Probably not. The millennial would be embarrassed about messaging any of the above would send to his/her friends.

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One of the interesting things is we see today is many successful people do not consider themselves successful. (See my posts earlier in this thread).

I think that's because they had such an easy time--they don't feel accomplished.

Some of the loudest whiners are college educated.

I'm sorry but if you've had the opportunity to get a college education and call yourself "oppressed" you're a clown. You had the chance to assemble all the tools you need to be successful.

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Marxist-socialists refer to an expanding CEO-BurgerFipper wage gap as problematic. Capitalists refer to compensating the CEO of a rapidly expanding company at an increasingly lower-rate per location as SUCCESS!

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two can play this...

300 of those CEO's get together to buy the majority of congressmen and women to do their bidding and screw everyone while they get richer and richer... In a perfect world people making millions would pay their employees more, but we don't live in that world, because people aren't perfect... I'm a capitalist and a republican. but a corporate oligarchy will trample rights every bit as fast as an overstepping government.. just look at covid mandates... what im talking about is evening out the power, more balance... last time i checked that was a conservative idea.. I suggest you read the book partnership economics... which is also faith based... 10 ultra rich people should not be steering the world as they see fit... Im talking about Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett etc... this is also one of the reasons why Teddy Roosevelt is prob one of the most underrated presidents.. He broke up Standard Oil... look how much wealth was created by breaking up that company.- You got Chevron, Exxon, Mobil... many companies were formed from that break up... We need more companies broken up... especially big tech.

again, why do these threads, and american discourse in general, always devolve into talk about minimum wage vs inflation and CEO pay? no one who matters gives a frick about minimum wage.

however, housing, education, healthcare, etc costs are extremely high relative to median wages and it's a valid problem that's not getting any better... and "move to nebraska" is not a macro solution.

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Then the problem is congressmen and women, not "the rich".

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It takes a Million dollars to run for congress for the media and voters to believe youre a "Viable" candidate... how the hell do you think someone can raise a million dollars?.. the Rich get their people elected and keep them there after theyre elected... i said balance. Congress needs Campaign finance limits and term limits, one doesnt do a damn thing without the other.. Buisnesses need oversight, otherwise they can control whos elected and whos not.. They can also crush competition if they get too big... im all for the free market, until there is a massive unfair playing field. then it needs to be re-balanced.

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It takes a Million dollars to run for congress for the media and voters to believe youre a "Viable" candidate... how the hell do you think someone can raise a million dollars?.. the Rich get their people elected and keep them there after theyre elected...

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If government didn't have the power to determine their success, they'd not be interested. Do you think an billionaires are funding the Bunkie mayoral candidates? Of course not. No power.

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im all for the free market, until there is a massive unfair playing field

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Yea. Saying you're "for the free market" as long as no one is successful within it, means you aren't really for the free market. And as long as you empower government to destroy businesses-- you guarantee those businesses will do everything they can to protect their business. If government was trying to destroy your life, you'd do the same.

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What I have a problem with is CEO's making millions and billions and the person making 60k a year doesn't get jack shite... not everyone can move up to CEOs.. while some fricker walks into a CEO role and is instantly set for life

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So why not become your own CEO? Start your company and make it successful if it's so easy and the CEO's role has no value. SHould be easy. What's stopping you?

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there is nothing wrong with setting up the tax code to incentivize companies to pay their workers more and pay less in taxes...

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You do realize that salary is 100% deductible as an expense, yes?

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If government didn't have the power to determine their success, they'd not be interested. Do you think an billionaires are funding the Bunkie mayoral candidates? Of course not. No power.

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youre out of your mind, Soros gave a prosecuter (many) millions of dollars just to let criminals back out on the streets... millionaires fund candidates at all levels...

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Yea. Saying you're "for the free market" as long as no one is successful within it,

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so someone makes a million dollars profit and theyre "not successful"? whatever dude..

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empower government to destroy businesses-

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the government controls everything, it always has. ours just used to be elected... now, theyre installed...

Ive said nothing about controlling outcomes or picking winners and losers. Ive said balance out the power...

youre way of thinking JEff Bezos will run the world in 4 years... you have to have balance and the vision to see where someone may get too powerful and get in front of it... kinda like i said 15 years ago that the mergers of CBS/Viacom and ABC/Disney should have never been allowed. they were trying to consolidate power and they did. now we have a media controlled by the left.... You have nothing but woke CEOs now... look at how many CEOs resigned right before Covid...hundreds, thousands.. They all knew

you get hung up on your ideals and you don't even realize your enemy is using them against you... that's the difference between you and me... Pat Buchannan and Ross Perot were right 20+ years ago...

My age group is unhappy because they're losers brought up by losers, raising losers.

It's pretty simple.