Old Capitalism has contracted rabies. There is only one cure.
Gen X now, too.
I’m an engineer with a graduate degree working in the aerospace industry doing a job only a few thousand people in the world can do, and nothing in aerospace can be done without someone doing my job. I’ve lived frugally, saved as much as I can, I’m healthy without any major medical expenses. I feel that I’m a functioning, productive member of society. Yet I have little hope of being able to afford a home where I live. I can barely afford to move to a less shitty apartment. My biggest cost outside of the bare necessities over the past few years has been therapy, and I’m constantly worrying about whether I can really afford it. If I’m in such a good position and barely treading water economically, how the fuck is anyone supposed to live? We’re barreling toward a cliff and the rich just keep pushing on the gas.
I suspect they only want the hyperproductive/ profitable citizens to live. They don’t really care that it doesn’t work economically.
https://votelabor.org/articles/how-to-form-a-union-your-guide-to-organizing-a-union
The only way to improve labor and salary/wage conditions is to be able to negotiate with the wealth class from an equitable position. One person can be fired and replaced, 30-70% of the staff walking out is likely going to cause the organization to fail as a business within just a couple months.
I’d bet you’re unwilling to move where your income/cost ratio would be beneficial, because you’ve made your “I’m part of the elite thousand in the world who knows what kind of quarter turn fastener to use” a core part of your identity.
More like I can’t really move because the only places I can even work are just like the place I am, or worse, and there’s only like 5 cities with jobs in my field anyway, unless I wanted to sell my soul working for a defense contractor contributing to killing innocent civilians and children. I wish I had a job with more mobility. I’m still just a cog in a giant machine that doesn’t give a fuck about me, the same as everyone else.
Also I’m not a mechanical engineer so I couldn’t tell you which fastener to use, so on both counts you’d lose that bet.
You’re not getting it. You’re still unwilling to give up that core identity that you’re some special wizard with arcane knowledge that you’re forced to use.
It’s making you miserable, and us bored of hearing about it.
Suck a dick troll cunt
My my, such emotion! Bet that’s the first authentic reaction you’ve had in years.
Keep suffering under your “only I know the right thickness of gold to use on ARINC 600 connector pins” mindset.
I used to be like you, oh so smart and important with my esoteric mystical knowledge! How else can I possibly function?
You are not your job. It’s just what you do. You think it’s some important core identity component of who you are. It’s not.
Even as an observer just reading this thread, I feel compelled to tell you: You’re a piece of shit
You’re belittling someone for no reason other than to make them feel bad, in an effort to make yourself feel superior
They’re just saying, initially, they have a good job, and even with a good job, it’s difficult to afford living expenses.
You’re just being a cunt lol idk why you dislike yourself so much, but projecting that out will just amplify the feeling. Making someone feel like shit, doesn’t actually make you look good mate.
This comment received downvotes because it’s uselessly mean spirited. It really stands out as intentionally unproductive.
Because we have no dependents or family ties, and we have enough capital to just move on a whim to gentrify communites we do not belong to.
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Miss me with the generational infighting. Its not your parents refusing to pay you appropriately, it’s capitalists
Yeah but a lot of bosses are boomers who don’t understand / want to realize how expensive life, especially rent and housing, has become and why we therefore need higher wages. Boomers still think cost of living is basically the same as when they were young. So it’s the boomers not willing to pay higher wages.
Perhaps some people are out of touch, regardless of whatever arbitrary date they were born. But the response to that shouldn’t be infighting among other working class people, it should be conversation that addresses root cause.
Sadly the number of boomers I have met who are ridiculously angry that a “burger flipper” at a fast food joint makes $18 an hour shows me that it truly does lean towards being a generational mindset as well. The true outliers are the more reasonable boomers from my personal interactions but ymmv depending on location. That being said I do totally agree that the root cause is class based but many of those boomers fall into that upper middle class that has been pinned against the lower classes for so long.
Old people being out of touch is a trend that has been happening at least since there was written language. That’s no reason to blame them for societal ills when it’s the wealth hoarders causing the problems. It is a shame they’re so easily manipulated by social media and cable news though.
They’ve been propagandized. They didn’t organically come up with the idea of being upset at fast food workers making a livable wage. Fox News and their ilk told them to be angry about it because wedge issues keep us distracted from the fact the wealthy take a disproportionate of the fruit of our labor
Considering The richest idiots ripping people off and controlling politics are currently millennials and genx. The ones supporting them with influencing podcasts are spanning from genx to genz.
First billionaire on the planet was a genx. Who is also estimated to be the first trillionaire.
boomers in GOP are just quickly turning into puddle brain dementia and easily being controlled by these assholes and people keep voting them into the seat to be puppetted.
You’re missing the forest for the trees.
Yes, the first billionaire and ostensibly trillionaire is Gen X and the politicians are starting to move into the X/M range… and the M/Z are supporting it because they’re sucking up the marketing like a hoover with a plan…
But Boomers still hold the majority of the wealth and make up a huge portion of the population. The billionaire class are going to grab as much of that as possible. Their imminent deaths will not create a massive redistribution of wealth. It will create a fucking feeding frenzy for the predator class.
We can point fingers at this generation or that, but not much separates me from a Millenial in age - it’s not like a switch was flipped and this made-up term changes who I am. That’s the sociological equivalent to astrology.
No I disagree. we absolutely should not distract from the point of hoarding by going off to make this a generational fight. That is pure bullshit. This is a class war. All generations are in on it just as they are a victim of it. So making it generational war is just pure ignorance at this point and it serves no purpose than to watch shit burn. You’re not being part of the solution here by protecting genx, millennials or genz and pretend like they are going to act any different with hoarding wealth. This is a human greed issue. It is an issue that affects the mind. Address it as such.
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For anyone else wondering, the world’s first USD billionaire was John D. Rockefeller in 1916. He was decidedly not Gen X.
Sure. Still not addressing the point.
You may need to restate your point. It just came across as shitting on younger generations with incorrect facts. The generational infighting is ridiculous bullshit, and you’re propagating that
Oh yeah, cuz I’m in none of those generations.
Weak argument.
Projection.
First billionaire on the planet was a genx.
Pretty sure the first billionaires predate genx by decades.
First trillionaire. Happy?
Anyways. This isn’t a generational war. Topic.
First billionaire on the planet was a genx. Who is also estimated to be the first trillionaire.
John D. Rockefeller was born in 1839. I’m not much of one for the silly generations, but I wasn’t aware GenX included the 1800s
you’re the first to correct me days after this post.
Unique.
