Seen at Reddit:
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I’m tired of boomers telling Gen Z and millennials to “suck it up” when we say that a salary of $60k or less shouldn’t trap us in a mediocre lifestyle, sharing apartments, skipping dining out, avoiding social outings, or never taking vacations.
No, these things aren’t luxuries; they’re essential for surviving the broken system boomers let flourish to benefit the 1%.
Everyone should be guaranteed affordable housing, a month of vacation each year, free healthcare, and student loan forgiveness—*at the very least.*
Gen Z shouldn’t have to suffer just because older generations did. We deserve better, and we deserve it now.
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When Boomers were growing up, the system was NOT broken. Basic necessities were available WITH AN ORDINARY JOB. They weren’t free and weren’t provided by government. They were provided by business.
The nature of business is what has changed. Before 1980, US corporations WANTED employees and customers and profit. They RECOGNIZED that the best way to keep employees and customers and profit was to make the system work well, so you could be SATISFIED with what your work provided, and SATISFIED with the products and services.
After the bait and switch, corporations only want to satisfy billionaire tax evaders who buy their stocks. Billionaires HATE workers and products and customers and profit, and FORCE corporations to destroy those things in order to provide a tax evasion for the billionaires. The only goal of the economy is ZERO TAX FOR LARRY FINK.
The diagnoser is correct that the monsters who pulled the bait and switch are part of the Boomer generation. But they DO NOT REPRESENT most Boomers. Most of us simply don’t understand the bait and switch. We haven’t been paying attention. We think that the system must still work the same way it worked for us, so we blame the youngsters for not putting out an ORDINARY amount of work. Older generations DIDN’T SUFFER because corporations were NOT COMMITTED TO RUINING THE COUNTRY. Corporations, for their own selfish reasons, WANTED a decent life for their workers and customers.
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Later thought: Boomers are also driving the stupid R vs D divide by a similar misguided extension of the old normal after a bait and switch. We are locked into MSNBC and FOX, which cater exclusively to over-60s. Younger generations understand that the media is the divider, and are increasingly ignoring all media.
Our absorption in the dividers is ALSO driven by our memory of how things were before 1980. We grew up with the Fairness Doctrine, so we were able to put some trust in radio and TV. The FCC ruthlessly CENSORED the natural divider urge among broadcast media. Media managed to sneak in some loaded words, but they were FORCED BY LAW to avoid pure Machiavelli. When the Doctrine was dropped in the 80s, media instantly resumed its normal Mach manners, and Boomers continued to trust our favorite network in the same way that we had trusted the old ENFORCED fairness.
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