Posted on 01/10/2024 6:28:50 PM PST by Red Badger
Someone is finally starting to see the truth of it all 👇
Ian Miles Cheong
@stillgray · Follow
Gen-Z will hopefully soon realize supporting and advocating for Biden was a bad idea.
VIDEO AT LINK.......................
TRANSCRIPT (SHE TALKS FAST):
I cannot stand how the news has been dogging Gen Z and calling them lazy for not wanting to work 9-5 for the rest of their lives. Let me put it in perspective for everyone who's a little confused here, all right?
I work five days out of the week, 40 hours a week. I do not make enough to live on my own. I would not make enough to pay rent, water, electric, and eat, all by myself. I would not be capable of doing that.
Twenty years ago, when you were getting started, you could live on your own. Twenty years ago when you first started, you were able to do everything that I am now struggling to do.
Let me add another perspective here. You've been working for 20 years. You have 20 years of working experiencing behind your belt. You have 20 years of experience in a career that has allowed you to gain raises, to get more money, to profit you in an economy that you created. You can sit here and call Gen Z lazy all you want, but I have been working my tail-end off just to barely make it by, and respectfully I don't want to do that for the rest of my life. I don't want to work my tail-end off, wasting all of my life working, just to barely be able to pay my bills.
And that is what you created. Not Gen Z. We're just here getting started. You've been doing it for the last 20 years. You tell me how it got ruined. We can sit here and we can call Gen Z lazy all you want. But you let the economy turn into what it did. You let it all run to hell. And now it's Gen Z's fault because we don't want to work to fix your mistakes.
YOW!
No lies detected. She gets it. A few decades ago someone busting their back at 40 hours a week could expect to see good returns. Now in many markets it's hardly enough to make rent.
The problem is bad... and has been for years:
It effects everything from food to housing:
For the Gen Zers that are starting to figure this out, let me introduce you to someone who may be sorta kinda part of the problem:
Remember to vote in November, kids!
She ranted about older people breaking the economy. I hope she realizes those older people have names like, Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, etc.
I also hope she invest 10% of her earning into quality companies...like, Wal*Mart.
she dont “get it” anyone and everyone who thinks walmart should pay enough to buy a house, raise a family, pay an adults bills. needs a re-education in real life. get a realjob. go get some trade training, become a CPA, HVAC is hiring. and stop f’king around. you cant afford kids right now.
I think this is well said.
I feel bad for young people. This is a new world, and it’s not a good one. $34T in debt, wages stagnant for decades, regulations limiting business choices, many, many reasons.
A lot of Freepers seem to lack any sort of empathy for what it’s like out there for people just starting. “I remember 1980! It was tough! But I did it — I triumphed over adversity, and these young punks today should do the same!”
I think sort of view is unfair in the extreme. I would also say that there seems to be a whole generation out there who seem to be struggling — in the world that was built by their elders. And these kids are trying to cope with their skills — the only skills that were made available to them from their elders.
If Conservatives ever hope that some in the younger generation might ever see Conservatives are human beings rather than Nazi thugs, perhaps a little understanding for what the working world is like for young people might be in order.
I disagree with the headline. That Gen Z girl doesn’t get it. There’s no mention of Biden, the Deep State, entrenched politicians, inflation, etc.
She’s just lashing out at older people in general. She doesn’t get it. Not at all. Which means she’ll just vote for Newsom, AOC, or some other younger politician who can flash a nice smile.
I got my own apartment when I was in high school, mostly working at a gas station next door to it.
I could barely support the one-bedroom apartment and for a while had to take in a Bandido as a roommate until I had to kick him out.
I saw part of this video today. She came across to me as arrogant and entitled.
She understands “her” problem, and is blaming others for now.
What will she do about it? That’s the REAL question.
It was a time when your place was furnished mainly with stuff you found sitting on curbs.
All your furnishing cost maybe a hundred bucks and most of that was the mattress. Which you either got from your parents or you bought new because a used mattress was just asking for trouble.
I don't know when this happy land where you left home and immediately got a good job that meant you could live comfortably was but I was not when I left home.
It was expected that you would struggle until you got a few years of work under your belt.
If after working twenty years you are still struggling, you made some very bad and totally preventable mistakes.
Even 20 or more years ago, a minimum wage job was not ever able to support oneself.
“Twenty years ago, when you were getting started, you could live on your own.”
No we could not; working at a retail position like Walmart. We had roommates or did what it took. But we didn’t whine. We built ourselves up.
“And that is what you created. Not Gen Z. We’re just here getting started. You’ve been doing it for the last 20 years. You tell me how it got ruined. We can sit here and we can call Gen Z lazy all you want. But you let the economy turn into what it did. You let it all run to hell. And now it’s Gen Z’s fault because we don’t want to work to fix your mistakes.”
The fault does not lie with a generation. The fault lies with those who voted for socialism. These people are from all generations, including Gen Z.
I feel bad for the younger gen.
The well paying jobs are few and Dei.
Blackrock and other money monopolies are buying all the housing.
Covid coincidently squeezed all smaller business.
Hopefully SS will eventually be solvent, as people die and the Med.I.C. rakes in money.
She probably voted for every dem that’s ever run. They are the ones that run the economy into the ground.
20 years ago no one could pay rent, eat, and all the other jazz on an entry level job. Hell, it’s been that way for over 40 years now. This gen-z’er needs a slap of reality more then they’re getting already.
Not a single person here is seeing what I see.
I’m gen x. FR is the sandbox and echo chamber for boomers.
I get what she’s saying, I get what the boomers are saying. All are valid.
I’m 47 and I drive for uber. But I’ve also tried from my third career and I’m embarking on a 4th.
Resets are part of that process.
To do one thing your whole life is a waste of life, in my opinion. She is young and thinks that works is all that is set before her. Life is so much more.
If she wishes to experience life at is fullest, no one is telling her, commanding her or even suggesting to her that she needs to work all the time.
I’ve lived in several rat bag apartments. I’ve lived in several ultra modern 3000sq ft houses. I’ve lived in beautiful places and in ugly ones. I’ve driven expensive cars and I’ve driven cheap ones. And all in progression.
I lived in an old farm house in Pennsylvania with a 1984 Subaru wagon. A favorite time of mine and a few years before that I had a Lotus and lived in a beautiful flat in New haven Connecticut. A beach house in Rhode Island.
I chose. Chose- the life I live. We all do. It’s not Bidens fault I live in an rv and it’s not to Trumps credit that I lived in a 3000 sqft home with a luxury suv.
That was mine.
Amen!
In the mid 80’s, I worked as a waitress M-F 6 am -11 am then at a community center from 12- 6 and went to night school from 6:30-9:30 M-Th. I was hired to be a flight attendant at 13k a yr starting out, paying $350 for a one bedroom apt and paid all of my other expenses without having or needing a credit card.
I had an old car that didn’t have reverse and only an am radio. I continued going to college, working my flight schedule around school and moved up. It was hard but joyful. I absolutely LOVED my life.
I read that it is common for Gen-Z job applicants to show up at the job interview with their parents.
Yeah I saw that article yesterday!...................
Yes, she is arrogant and entitled. That shows the difference between this generation and the boomer generation which had a terrible time from the early to mid-1960s through the early to mid-1980s. The boomers worked two and three jobs to make ends meet. She expects to work one 40 hour a week job and live like her parents. I would suggest to her to work the full time job and a part times job like her grandparents did and to have one or more female roommates until she marries sort of like her grandmothers did.
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