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re: This is why millennials are unhappy
Posted on 4/1/22 at 4:47 pm to LSUFanHouston
Posted on 4/1/22 at 4:47 pm to LSUFanHouston
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Oh man.
Who were these parents?
So you are saying the older generation did a crap job of parenting?
Yes
You were failed by your parents and as of yet haven't figured out how to escape that.
As a parent, I'd address your entitlement line of thinking swiftly and definitively. Both of my young children are poised to outperform you already.
And, cost of living IS out of control. You just have no fricking clue what's causing it nor what the solution is. The only solutions you consider are easy blanket "raise minimum wage" solutions because effort and time aren't acceptable to you.
This post was edited on 4/1/22 at 4:52 pm
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Posted on 4/1/22 at 4:48 pm to CuyahogaTigerJr
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I can’t even get thru 1/2 that shite… so fricking what on paper it’s worse, get your head out your fricking arse and do something
^This!
Posted on 4/1/22 at 4:48 pm to LSUFanHouston
Labor can never improve their purchasing power significantly. When management realizes increased compensation, it's a good thing. When labor gets increased compensation, that leads to inflation which keeps the purchasing power the same:
Get into management.
Get into management.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 4:49 pm to LSUFanHouston
A dozen eggs in my Local grocery store today was right at $3.50. And no, I’m not joking.
That’s nuts.
That’s nuts.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 4:50 pm to LSUFanHouston
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You can choose to accept the truth or you can mock it.
One way, the right might start winning elections again. One way, they won't.
It's odd to be in denial about the fact some things are more expensive now in relation to income. That's just a fact.
I don't think millenials are unhappy though.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 4:51 pm to fallguy_1978
quote:my dad built a 3000sq ft house in the 70's for $50k. The exact same price he paid for a new Massey combine. Compare any metric you want but a 4 person household with one earner in a blue collar job did fine in the 60s. Now they are barely above poverty level. That's because of the debasement of our currency. We don't have 2 income households now because woman prefer to work. Half the women in my office hate being there. They have no choice.
Many family homes homes were 1400 Sq ft for a family of 6.
The policies of the Fed and our government have destroyed the middle class. That is undeniable. Whether or not its intentional is up for debate
Posted on 4/1/22 at 4:53 pm to WildManGoose
The perfect boomer response.
Don't go anywhere, don't do anything. Eat your rice and beans and be happy about it. Play checkers at home. If you want to do anything mildly fun, you don't get to complain that it costs more than it did "bAcK In my dAy."
LOL. fricking boomers.
Don't go anywhere, don't do anything. Eat your rice and beans and be happy about it. Play checkers at home. If you want to do anything mildly fun, you don't get to complain that it costs more than it did "bAcK In my dAy."
LOL. fricking boomers.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 4:54 pm to auggie
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don't need a cell phone. You don't either, unless you're a truck driver.
holy shite
Posted on 4/1/22 at 4:54 pm to rebelrouser
Yeah minimum wage is for dumbasses and kids. They are all pretty much going to be poor.
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Posted on 4/1/22 at 4:54 pm to LSUFanHouston
As I expected, a shite ton of responses bitching about minimum wage.
I want to buy a house, I busted my fricking arse for 10 years now, earned a CPA, and I am an accounting manager. That is a damn good job.
You know what I can afford in Denver where I live? A shack in the bad section of town. Earning over 100k doesn't really get you shite in a large portion of the country anymore, yet we have been at war and spending money we don't have on tanks for decades now. My generation didn't set up social security, and my generation also won't get even though I'm paying for the old asses for a ponzi scheme.
Yeah not spending a thousand dollars on a phone every two years really is costing me a house and car.
I see the idiotic responses in this thread and completely understand why we are losing the culture war.
I want to buy a house, I busted my fricking arse for 10 years now, earned a CPA, and I am an accounting manager. That is a damn good job.
You know what I can afford in Denver where I live? A shack in the bad section of town. Earning over 100k doesn't really get you shite in a large portion of the country anymore, yet we have been at war and spending money we don't have on tanks for decades now. My generation didn't set up social security, and my generation also won't get even though I'm paying for the old asses for a ponzi scheme.
Yeah not spending a thousand dollars on a phone every two years really is costing me a house and car.
I see the idiotic responses in this thread and completely understand why we are losing the culture war.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 4:55 pm to LSUFanHouston
Stop being poor work harder then minimum wage folk and you'll be compensated for it.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 4:55 pm to VictoryHill
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Yeah, it's total bullshite. I'm 32, an Army Veteran, conservative, with a job that pays my bills so I can say that and not be shouted down by the boomer mob who thinks anyone that bitches about quality of life and cost of living nowadays is a skinny jean wearing, soy latte sipping liberal.
Took the wife to the theater to see The Batman in IMAX the other day and it was a $40 ordeal.
32 year old vets used to live in 1000 sq ft brick ranches and raise 3 kids there and were happy to have it. There was 1 family car. Schools were good because bad kids were kicked out. Neighborhoods were safe because bad guys actually went to jail. Our society has changed so much in the last 30 years that comparing simple bullshite like the price of eggs or minimum wage is meaningless.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 4:56 pm to Jcorye1
Why don’t you get out of Denver? Nobody owes it to hou to live there. They need CPAs in Nebraska.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 4:58 pm to DeathValley85
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quote:
don't need a cell phone. You don't either, unless you're a truck driver.
holy shite
It's true, but you can tell yourself whatever you want.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 4:59 pm to LSUFanHouston
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A lot of us had grandfathers that worked for barely above min wage in the 70s and yet still owed a house, etc.
Along with that mothers stayed home and raised the kids and ran the households. Believe it or not having a paying job is expensive. Mama got to have a car to get to work, got to have nice clothes(that doesn't include a whopping dry cleaning bill) for work and last but not least, got to pay dor daycare to raise your own kids. Those three things aren't cheap nowadays.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 5:00 pm to WildTchoupitoulas
quote:First off, that is not universally true. However, let's take the generalization as factual. If a bricklayer earns the same identical inflation adjusted income for the same identical work/productivity in 2020 as a bricklayer did in 1970, is that unexpected? If on the other hand, he operates a machine that lays 10-fold the bricks with 1/10th the effort and receives increased pay, is that unexpected?
Labor can never improve their purchasing power significantly.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 5:01 pm to deeprig9
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32 year old vets used to live in 1000 sq ft brick ranches and raise 3 kids there and were happy to have it.
What's your point?
quote:
Our society has changed so much in the last 30 years that comparing simple bullshite like the price of eggs or minimum wage is meaningless.
None of this takes anything away from the fact that we spend a greater percentage of our income on basic items comparatively.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 5:02 pm to auggie
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It's true, but you can tell yourself whatever you want.
You think people don't need cell phones? How old are you exactly? A cell phone is a de facto requirement for every career now.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 5:02 pm to baybeefeetz
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Why don’t you get out of Denver? Nobody owes it to hou to live there. They need CPAs in Nebraska.
Yep because that's what we should be focused on, just move when it gets tight, and not the millions of potential young voters in the Denver metro area.
Kick arse, make it to management in a traditionally upper middle class job, but yeah frick off to Nebraska.
Maybe, just maybe our politicians can focus on actual issues instead of the flavor of the month and buying votes.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 5:03 pm to Zach
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2. In the 60s when I started working we knew that MW was not for a career. It was training on the job. We learned skills and developed a resume for better jobs.
the US population had 150 million fewer people too
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