I hate it when FReepers rag on all young people. How are you geezers with your harsh dismissiveness of youth somehow morally superior to young people?
Then you tell us where they are.
‘I hate it when FReepers rag on all young people.’
hmmm...so you hate it when people express opinions on an opinion forum; OK...
Both of my kids are working and going to school. Very proud of them.
How are you geezers with your harsh dismissiveness of youth
I tend to agree — things are a lot worse than when most FReepers were kids… heck, that's true even for the young FReepers!
A lot of people have mentioned childhood lawn-mowing businesses; but how many times have we seen the child's lemonade stand shut down by city officials
story?
A lot of people mention getting jobs as if you can just go outside, turn over a rock, and find a job; but how many jobs and companies have been shipped overseas?
Then there's the scorn for people living with parents (truly odd, considering multigenerational homes were the traditional norm in America), who seem utterly out-of-touch with the costs of housing today.
A lot of the harsh judgments here are operating as if massive regulatory burdens didn't exist, as if massive illegal-immigration weren't an issue, and as if there were no such thing as HR and political correctness.
I can tell you from experience that getting a job in my particular field isn't easy, despite it being STEM and the alleged STEM shortage (in reality it's that employers are trying to get senior-level talent on entry-level pay; combined with the massive H1B fraud used to depress the average wage in the field).
“How are you geezers with your harsh dismissiveness of youth somehow morally superior to young people?”
Don’t forget, they’re the lazy good-for-nothing geezers that failed to educate, motivate, train, and mentor those younger people they call slobs.
“How are you geezers with your harsh dismissiveness of youth somehow morally superior to young people?”
P.S. The geezers do the same thing in business. Instead of being the senior managers and executives that are competent and lead the organization, they’re just as lazy and incompetent running corporations as they are raising children.
Thank you. My teenagers all work and do very well. Even my 14 year old has two part time jobs. She manages it all around her school and dance classes. My younger kids can’t wait to be old enough to start earning money.
“I hate it when FReepers rag on all young people. How are you geezers with your harsh dismissiveness of youth somehow morally superior to young people?”
They, collectively, ARE NOT. It was up to that generation, my generation, to keep this country STRAIGHT AND MORAL. But we have SIMPLY FAILED. Every time you see some flaming Leftist radical in her 20s, remember, most likely, she had 2 parents, and they simply did not do jack to get her to love the country and RESPECT everyone here (legally, at least). Instead, they sat on their assess, while she went around identifying who she perceived as ‘enemies of the people’, starting with Trump but including anyone with an “R” by their name. But where were her parents, Answer: probably egging her on.
Is that you David Hogg? Welcome to Free Republic!
From now on I am going to call everyone who offends me geezers.
“I hate it when FReepers rag on all young people. How are you geezers with your harsh dismissiveness of youth somehow morally superior to young people?”
Yes stereotypes are almost always a really bad thing to use.
Many of the kids today are working and working hard. But there is also a growing set of the stereotypical pampered ones that wont work.
Different from in the past.