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re: Why are Moronials such whiny losers that blame all of their failures on Boomers?
Posted on 2/24/22 at 11:04 pm to 0
Posted on 2/24/22 at 11:04 pm to 0
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This is such a beaten down topic and a horrendous bad take. If you don’t see why younger generations have a much harder time compared to those in yesteryear you are either too dumb to help or willfully ignorant.
My daughter is 25, lives at home and has it made. When I was her age I was traveling, working for a railroad company laying CWR on a rail gang. Yes, these youngsters are being exposed to undue suffering….lol!
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Posted on 2/24/22 at 11:04 pm to Bass Tiger
quote:You're missing the point.
My daughter is 25, lives at home and has it made. When I was her age I was traveling, working for a railroad company laying CWR on a rail gang. Yes, these youngsters are being exposed to undue suffering….lol!
Posted on 2/24/22 at 11:06 pm to Big Scrub TX
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My daughter is 25, lives at home and has it made. When I was her age I was traveling, working for a railroad company laying CWR on a rail gang. Yes, these youngsters are being exposed to undue suffering….lol!
You're missing the point.
Go on….
Posted on 2/24/22 at 11:07 pm to Bass Tiger
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My daughter is 25, lives at home and has it made. When I was her age I was traveling, working for a railroad company laying CWR on a rail gang.
There are going to be bad eggs in every bunch. I’m sure you did your best.
Posted on 2/24/22 at 11:10 pm to Bass Tiger
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My daughter is 25, lives at home
Yikes. No wonder you have such a warped view.
Pics if she’s not fat?
Posted on 2/24/22 at 11:10 pm to 0
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You posted that it should be obvious why millennials have it so bad. If it's obvious, explain it to me. I really don't understand what the whining is about.
Posted on 2/24/22 at 11:13 pm to 0
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My daughter is 25, lives at home and has it made. When I was her age I was traveling, working for a railroad company laying CWR on a rail gang.
There are going to be bad eggs in every bunch. I’m sure you did your best.
She’s a good kid but she too got all caught up in the BLM protests and believed cops were hunting down black peoples…..I finally got her straightened out on that shite when I showed her the real crime statistics….lol! She’ll probably be fine but she’s unmotivated like a lot of young people, they’re waiting for their Boomer parents to die and leave them everything. I didn’t never had that expectation because we had nine kids in the family and our parents were not wealthy so there was no fighting over shite when mom and dad passed.
Posted on 2/24/22 at 11:14 pm to David_DJS
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My view - since about 1990, high school and especially college graduates have been convinced they are victims. Victims all sorts of ways. It's all about sexism, white supremacy, etc., and as is obvious from this thread - young people think they've been hosed economically by their parents and grandparents. But is it true? Explain how it is.
My view - shite is a lot more expensive now and wages haven’t gone up enough to make ends meet. People with a high school education in the 80s could get a job making 10/hour and support their family. Nowadays those jobs are paying 15/ hour and that’s considered borderline poverty.
Jobs are also much more competitive now than they were back then. A college degree is basically a necessity for any non trade related job and with it comes debt and 4+ years of spending money instead of making money.
Real estate is also just stupid now. It takes a bigger down payment and a higher monthly payment to live in a nice area. Housing prices have doubled so people are not buying as quickly which again puts them further behind because they are spending money on rent but not building equity.
There are a ton of examples. I think anybody that reasonably thinks about the issues will see that. Someone who has stayed in the same town for 40 years might not be the best audience for this discussion.
Posted on 2/24/22 at 11:17 pm to Bass Tiger
quote:You're being too dramatic with the "undue suffering".
Go on….
The point is, the Boomer idea of the economy is simply an incorrect model. Boomers came up during an unprecedented post war boom (with plenty of gubment help, btw) and took advantage of it. They did so without humility - to the point that they told themselves they were the ones responsible for their results.
Quite literally, a working man with a family of 5 back in the 60s could reasonably expect (without a college education) to fairly easily afford a home and food if he just worked his hours. You're simply being willfully blind if you won't admit that those conditions no longer persist. In many markets, the most industrious young people around might still struggle to accumulate the down payment on the most modest place they can find.
They've also lived through a financial crisis and a pandemic, both of which have partially stunted their upward mobility.
I'm happy to bash the Y gang on any number of vectors, but we should at least be honest about the economy.
Posted on 2/24/22 at 11:20 pm to 0
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There are a ton of examples. I think anybody that reasonably thinks about the issues will see that. Someone who has stayed in the same town for 40 years might not be the best audience for this discussion.
Well, I see your first problem. You think you know shite you very obviously don't. Why do you have to make shite up to make an argument. Stick with the facts.
Inflation in in the 1970's (as a decade) ran 103%. Inflation for the decade we just finished ran less than 20%. So how are you concluding you have it worse than a boomer?
Posted on 2/24/22 at 11:22 pm to Big Scrub TX
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Quite literally, a working man with a family of 5 back in the 60s could reasonably expect (without a college education) to fairly easily afford a home and food if he just worked his hours. You're simply being willfully blind if you won't admit that those conditions no longer persist. In many markets, the most industrious young people around might still struggle to accumulate the down payment on the most modest place they can find.
Uhh….we were poor baw. It was a decision our parents made to have my mom stay home and raise the children. Later when all the kids were school age mom went to work as a nurse.
This post was edited on 2/24/22 at 11:23 pm
Posted on 2/24/22 at 11:23 pm to Big Scrub TX
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Quite literally, a working man with a family of 5 back in the 60s could reasonably expect (without a college education) to fairly easily afford a home and food if he just worked his hours.
That’s a bit of a white-wash. You might have a home but it was a 1200 square foot 3/1 cinderblock construction and you ate bologna sandwiches. There’s no question that there are challenges now that are different, but the lower middle class didn’t have a car each, cell phone, 4 color TVs, etc back then.
Posted on 2/24/22 at 11:24 pm to David_DJS
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Well, I see your first problem. You think you know shite you very obviously don't. Why do you have to make shite up to make an argument. Stick with the facts.
Everything I said was a fact. I can give real life examples to every point I made.
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Inflation in in the 1970's (as a decade) ran 103%. Inflation for the decade we just finished ran less than 20%. So how are you concluding you have it worse than a boomer?
Yeah that .75 gas must have been real hard to work around.
Posted on 2/24/22 at 11:25 pm to Bass Tiger
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Uhh….we were poor baw. It was a decision our parents made to have my mom stay home and raise the children. Later when all the kids were school age mom went to work as a nurse.
With 9 kids my daycare bill would have been 16k / month. So I think I can guess why she stayed home.
Posted on 2/24/22 at 11:26 pm to Flats
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That’s a bit of a white-wash. You might have a home but it was a 1200 square foot 3/1 cinderblock construction and you ate bologna sandwiches. There’s no question that there are challenges now that are different, but the lower middle class didn’t have a car each, cell phone, 4 color TVs, etc back then.
Bingo! We boomers weren’t living in luxury like these youngsters think…Lol
Posted on 2/24/22 at 11:27 pm to 0
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Everything I said was a fact. I can give real life examples to every point I made.
No, you made shite up. Even how you alluded to me is completely off base.
Stick to the facts, okay? Let's see if we can get somewhere.
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Yeah that .75 gas must have been real hard to work around.
Maybe your problem is education. Do you understand anything about economics? Your comment here indicates you're ignorant AF.
So again, explain how your generation has it so bad. All you've done so far is post whiny bullshite, and I'm very openminded here. Just give us something to work with besides feelings and assumptions.
Posted on 2/24/22 at 11:29 pm to 0
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Yeah that .75 gas must have been real hard to work around.
Now do median income.
Posted on 2/24/22 at 11:29 pm to joh burroh
I updated even though I am Gen X. You fellas keep bickering while we are running this shite.
Posted on 2/24/22 at 11:30 pm to 0
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Uhh….we were poor baw. It was a decision our parents made to have my mom stay home and raise the children. Later when all the kids were school age mom went to work as a nurse.
With 9 kids my daycare bill would have been 16k / month. So I think I can guess why she stayed home.
Now you’re catching on…we weren’t as materialistic as the younger generations because most of us came from bigger families and there wasn’t a lot of money to handout to the kids
Posted on 2/24/22 at 11:30 pm to 0
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Uhh….we were poor baw. It was a decision our parents made to have my mom stay home and raise the children. Later when all the kids were school age mom went to work as a nurse.
With 9 kids my daycare bill would have been 16k / month. So I think I can guess why she stayed home.
Now you’re catching on…we weren’t as materialistic as the younger generations because most of us came from bigger families and there wasn’t a lot of money to handout to the kids
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