Posted on 01/10/2024 6:28:50 PM PST by Red Badger
But at least Gen Z can have an abortion up to nine months. That’s really the most important thing, right? /sarc
You’re hoping he becomes a Conservative, I’m concerned he’s on his way to Communism and demand the state give him everything.
Generational stereotyping is for weak minds ...
I think she has a greatly inflated idea of how good it was in the not-so-good old days. Working minimum wage of close to it, you would have to live with your parents, or share a place with several others. Hell, young engineers used to share houses that they rented.
She doesn’t have a leg to stand on and does not give credit where credit is due: Liberal leftist policies are destroying the economy. If she and her ilk keep voting for them, she will be turned into a labor slave and seeing as how she has a pretty face, probably a sex slave as well once they replace Epstein.
“That Gen Z girl doesn’t get it.”
Exactly. She’s courier and spoiled.
When it came to starting out for me, with rent, utilities, etc., we had these things called, “roommates”. Share the pain and expenses for a while, save some $ every month, and keep moving forward. Baby steps.
It sounds like she thinks she should have all these things from Day One. It doesn’t work that way. It’s never worked that way.
Indeed, it certainly wasn’t like that when I left the parent’s home either. Living paycheque to paycheque, often eating wish sandwiches (you wish you had some bread), taking ANY job that came along because you wanted to eat something other than ramen.
It has NEVER been a cakewalk. The closest was the mid fifties where a single income could support a family AFTER dad got a solid job.
Nailed it. She doesn't subject herself to questions on HER philosophy or point of view about much of anything. Not going to listen to any more out of that mouth if she produces another time-wasting video.
> I feel bad for the younger gen. The well paying jobs are few… <
You’re right about that. When I graduated high school (1970s) I had the option of going right to work in the mills or for the railroad. Those were good union jobs. No experience necessary.
The mills are all gone now. And so are most of the railroads.
Trump understood all that. He tried to bring industry back to America. The Democrats , the GOPe, and the media blocked him at every turn. At what’s worse, most younger folks never understood what Trump was trying to do.
I don't think anyone has ever been able to pay their living expenses while working 40 hours a week at an entry-level type of job at Walmart.
I worked in the retail world in my younger days, and every single one of the people working on the floor of the store fell into three categories: (1) part-time employees who were going to college at the same time they were working; (2) part-time employees with other full-time jobs who were working at night in November and December to earn extra money during the holiday season; and (3) married women working part-time or full-time hours as a second household income.
It wasn't until you got to the mid-level managerial tier that you earned enough money to support yourself on that one income.
For perspective: $13,000 in 1985 translates roughly to $38,000 today. Median household income in 2022 was $74,580.
I first read about that happening in the late 1990s.
“she dont “get it” anyone and everyone who thinks walmart should pay enough to buy a house, raise a family, pay an adults bills.“
Retail jobs have used to do all this. That’s how far we’ve fallen.
Whoop-te-doo sugar. So am I.
The time I was talking about was the early 90s.
I also get what she is saying. What she is saying is that she does not want to work. It is not difficult to understand. I work to support myself and my family. And I am right now a part of the "sandwich generation" which means I have parents who are elderly and need help and children who are not ready to be on their own yet. I drag myself out of bed in the morning some days and just stand there and quietly ache. And then I get on with it.
But I will tell you something, I am NOT going to work to support little miss "I don't wanna work" as well. She can just go starve in a ditch somewhere.
I am not going to do it.
Elections have consequences...
Remember that when you vote.
“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.”
She should start an OnlyFans channel. She could retire in a year or two, assuming she has no self respect or morals.
Agree with you. The American dream is broken. Generational wealth transfer will not work. Immigration wealth transfer will not work. DEI will not work. No scam will work. I know a possible solution but no one will like it so I will keep it to myself. The debt must be paid, the worm must turn and there is no free lunch.
My own father is getting ready to collect on his pension for more years than he worked. It is supported by people still working who will get a fraction of what he got. Who thought you got to screw around for 18-25 years, work for 30, then collect money for 30-40 more while outsourcing your healthcare. It doesn’t add up. Especially if you kill 72 million babies.
The problem is, if these Gen z’ers, Y’ers, etc all start rebelling against the system, where will that leave us.
Im Gen Z. I earn a pretty good living and its still tough, especially since my divorce. Im still digging myself out of a huge tax bill that my ex screwed me with. But I’m doing it. I have sympathy for these younger generations because everything is so damn expensive. We all better hope they don’t rebel against the system, because if they do, we are screwed. If they all end up like her and say “screw this, I’m not doing this anymore” then we’ll see some real screwed up sh*t.
Well, a lot of industries have really hollowed out the middle management layer. It’s harder to move up these days, because there are fewer slots than there used to be.
If you go back to, I suppose, the 70s, people could start out in heavy industry, textiles, shoe manufacturing, etc. Room to grow in industries like that. But those jobs largely went overseas.
More recently, the internet was new and hot and any young person with an interest could jump in and rise up over time. But that whole industry is different now.
Today, in the Obama/Biden economy, a lot of young people can only get into jobs like donut shop coffee server. And that’s it. You’ve peaked. No where to go up from there.
I know it’s not 100% bleak for everyone. Some folks do succeed, and good for them. But I do not think there is any big bag just crammed full of American Dreams, and anyone who works hard can grab one of ‘em. I think the number of slots labeled “successful life” is fewer today than it’s ever been.
Bleak, desperate, cold and hungry. Yet still somehow satisfying. Maybe it was because we did not expect things to be easy.
Remember the first time you paid your rent and only had fifty cents left? But you did it. All you baby. You were no longer a "dependent". You were now an adult. A pretty much broke adult but still, a full fledged standing on your own two feet adult.
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