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“We Were Told That Boomers Would Eventually Retire”: 30 People Share The Lies That Their Generations Were Sold
Santa Claus is real. Babies come from a stork dropping them off on your doorstep. You are definitely capable of becoming a professional tennis player when you grow up. Adults tell children little white lies all the time. They are mostly harmless, and eventually, we grow up to learn that they weren’t true but were nice to hear at the time. However, some lies that we are sold from older generations, the government and the media don’t go away as we age. Even if we realize they aren't true, these ideas can be incredibly difficult to shake and continue to shape an entire generation's expectations of their lives.
Last week, Reddit user VictorPumpenstein posed the question, “What is the biggest lie sold to your generation?” and many readers had grievances to air. We’ve gathered some of the most thought-provoking responses to this question down below, so you can feel seen by others in your generation or understand the older and younger groups a little better. Be sure to upvote the replies that you found most eye-opening, and then if you’re interested in reading another Bored Panda piece featuring millennials calling out the lies they were told, you can find that right here.
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#1
That climate change was nothing to worry about.
Caro Caro 3 years ago
Upvote Upvote Upvote! This really bothers me. All the lies told, big corporations with too much influence in governments and their so-called eco friendly adds trying to sell us the same stuff that still doesn't work, pollutes and is not even a basic necessity.
Mohammad Ammar 3 years ago
Oh no it's actually worse than that. We were taught how horrible it is while being left to watch no one do anything about it.
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
There are still climate change deniers and it annoys the hell out of me.
Mary Rogers 3 years ago
Me too. You can't reason with them and they block political action on this. It's understandable why the younger generation is so angry.
Load More Replies... D Stone 3 years ago
I am not sure how old the poster is, but we have been told about climate change since the 70's. Al Gore made a really famous movie about it in the early 2000's. So, either you were not listening, or you were listening to the wrong politicians. If you were listening to the wrong political party, maybe you might want to switch sides. Just saying......
iseefractals 3 years ago
We've known that this is bull$hit for at least 40 years. That little hole in the ozone? From Chlorofluorocarbons, used as refrigerants and aerosol propellants! We've known for hundreds of years that Lead is poisonous, yet it was a common fuel additive that the US didn't ban for automobiles until 1996 (still widely used in farm equipment, aviation fuel and race cars) and is still used for everything in other parts of the world. Eunice Foote gave a presentation at a top US science conference in 1856. She found higher concentrations of Co2 caused air to heat up faster, get hotter and retain that heat longer. John Tyndall began publishing a series of studies in 1859 showing the effects of greenhouse gasses on the atmosphere, which referenced Eunice Foote's previous findings. I first learned of this in public middle school science class 27 years ago. We have known about this, and yet even those that acknowledge the problem, continue to pretend that they bare no responsibility in creating it
SunshineBurrito 3 years ago
Absolutely, this bothers me so much as I was told this before I found out how bad it really was.
The Captain 3 years ago
Climate change is real, and the solution is the exact opposite of what the world governments are doing. Destroying industries in Countries with regulations so they move to countries with no regulations. Result, cost the companies that donate to politicians less money while increasing polution by more than it is decreasing.
Azolane 3 years ago
We are also told the lie that all our small everyday actions matter when in fact they don't. I'm so over the media telling already poor people to make an effort when in reality, they are not the ones who need to change their lifestyle.
iseefractals 3 years ago
Do you eat meat? Frequent fast food chains? Buy single use plastics? Drive a gas guzzling car? Use electricity? Waste food? Then those are a few of the many ways which indicate you are part of the problem. What everyone is so eager to ignore, is the fact that while the corporations are the ones cutting corners....consumers (that's you!) are the ones that continue to facilitate their $hitty actions. We got irrefutable evidence of the impact of individuals modifying behavior's during the pandemic. Wildlife started to return, waterways went clear for the first time in who even knows how long, air quality and visibility improved dramatically and oil prices WENT NEGATIVE. All of it matters, because it's all cumulative. Every $hitty thing you do, is being done billions of times over. I'm sick of listening to the rationalizations of people living in western countries saying "derp, well not my fault, i'm perfect, it's EVERYONE ELSE that's the problem"
Load More Replies...Whether it comes from a place of ignorance, optimism or wanting to spare people from anxiety, plenty of lies have been sold to the various generations. Maybe you were told to believe in the power of the “American Dream”. Perhaps you expected to be able to afford a home of your own 3 years after graduating from university. No matter what harsh realities you had a wake-up call to as you got a bit older, you likely are not the only person in your age group to feel that way. Your entire generation might have been mislead in the same way you were, and they might be just as bitter about it.
So to understand what misinformation each generation is responsible for spreading, first we need to understand exactly what each generation is like. Let’s begin with baby boomers. You might be one, your parents might be some, or even your grandparents might fall into this group, as these are the individuals who were born between the years 1946-1964. There are about 71 million baby boomers out and about today, and they are famous for their post World War II optimism, being around for the Cold War, and the hippie movement.
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#2
The war on drugs. It has decimated the lives of so many people. Minorities are disproportionately incarcerated for their possession.
My generation was taught that all drugs are bad and that there is no use for them in the medical community. Science is proving that many drugs that were classified as illegal are beneficial for treating a multitude of health issues.
It's time that we end the war on drugs. People should be treated for addiction in a medical facility rather than being incarcerated.
Trond Øien 3 years ago
Hear, hear! It's infuriating af. Some recommended reading on the subject: "...in reality, the war on drugs has little to do with public safety. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2013 shows that tobacco, alcohol and prescription painkillers were responsible for more direct deaths than any other drug." https://www.mic.com/articles/109718/these-3-drugs-are-much-deadlier-than-marijuana-but-they-re-all-totally-legal
Sue User 3 years ago
Yes, prescription drugs kill people. Yes, the drug companies were complicit. But the pendulum has swung so far the other way, that people who really need it dont get them. And now methotrexate is rapidly joining the list of " oh i really dont feel comfortable prescribing this" ( can be misused as abortion drug ), i really dont know what people expect us to do.
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Suzanne Tilson 3 years ago
The war on drugs.more like the war on the poor. The rich go to rehab
AndThenICommented 3 years ago
One aspect of the war on drugs that many don’t understand is that it’s not like they just ‘did their time’ for breaking the law. Often times, their assets (including homes…cars…cash) are taken by the government and in many states felons can no longer vote. Which means it’s not just some punishment - it’s a full destruction of someone’s life and the life of their dependent family, with no way to even have their say because their not represented as a viable constituent
Mary Rogers 3 years ago
I don't even know how that asset forfeiture law is even Constitutional. They don't even have to charge someone to take their property. And the law was meant to penalize wealthy criminals but it has been abused.
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LeighAnne Brown-Pedersen 3 years ago
Let’s take weed! It is not all bad. It is not all good. But until it is federally accepted, no studies can be done by any credible organization about levels, good, bad and otherwise. Let’s hope now that it is legal across Canada, that they will start to study it and we can show the good, the bad, and the real. Same thing with medical schrooms, same story, some good, some bad.
Seedy Vine 3 years ago (edited)
Yes, and I wish they'd stop lying in the U.S. about some supposed link between marijuana and schizophrenia. It lessens many symptoms of schizophrenia. Speaking from experience.
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Naesil 🇫🇮 3 years ago
War on drugs has made lots of bad people really rich. But the american war on drugs is just a front that allows them to do all the dodgy s**t they have done in south america, where do you think all the cartels get their guns from? US, making the nations unstable they are easier to control. Its miracle that Canada is successful developed country being next to USA.
ljbeanfield 3 years ago
Also the war on homeless people. It traps the people that could recover or weren't addicted to anything to begin with. It's sad. (USa specific)
Tessb90 3 years ago
I can confirm this, it also helps anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and weirdly enough can help a lot if you're also autistic, with ADHD on top of everything else.
Load More Replies... Michael Macki 3 years ago
“You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” ~ John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon
Cherreka Wirth 3 years ago
In all fairness there is a big difference between pot and heroin. No one should go to jail for anything marijuana related. It's just stupid. Heroin is more dangerous though. But the problem is a lot of heroin addicts become addicted because they had an accident and git prescribed narcotics by their doctor, and assumed since it was dr prescribed it was safe. Poor people, not even their fault!
#3
Money can't buy happiness. It's b******t, most of my problems could be solved by money and I'd be so happy.
Hawkmoon 3 years ago
"Money can't buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus". Françoise Sagan.
Athena Bloom 3 years ago
I have my own twist on this! "I'd much cry in a Jaguar than on a bike, but if money could buy happiness, I wouldn't be crying in the first place."
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Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago (edited)
Money certainly helps with less stress, less worry and I would say less divorce, less mental health issues, less child abandonment etc.
General Anaesthesia 3 years ago
So it helps combat unhappiness, which is more than good enough. It gives the energy for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Rick Seiden 3 years ago
Money can't buy happiness, but it can fix a lot of the things that are making you unhappy.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
There was a recent study that discovered money can buy happiness. Not wealth, but enough income to pay bills, live decently, put aside for your retirement and your children’s college, vacation every year, and just generally feel secure. This is what people trying to raise minimum wage, and demanding a decent wage and work-life balance are after. Not fabulous wealth, but enough to live a happy and secure life. Link to Psychology Today article: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-new-home/202201/when-and-how-money-buys-happiness Also, here’s a Springer link to the original article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11482-020-09875-6
Disgruntled Panda 3 years ago
Money can buy all the security that leads to a carefree (and for me) happy life
Tracy Wallick 3 years ago
Money CAN buy happiness, having financial stability is the greatest antidepressant, anti-anxiety fix I've ever gotten
Baby boomers are also known for being the largest consumers of traditional media like television, radio, magazines and newspapers. They are often traditionalists who stick to these forms of media that they know and have a hard time adapting to new technology. However, 90% of them do have a Facebook account, so they are not totally opposed to innovation. They have welcomed technology like Facebook that allows them to keep in touch with old friends and always know what their family members are up to.
When it comes to how baby boomers like to manage their money, many of them still prefer to go into their banks in person and always carry a bit of cash, especially for small purchases. Surprisingly, baby boomers also have a staggering amount of student loan debt. This is not because university was so expensive when they attended, because for the most part, it wasn’t. But many of them actually took on debt to help their children receive higher education, leaving lots of boomers with little to no retirement funds.
#4
I suspect "crime doesn't pay" is a lie told to more generations than just mine.
First of all, crime is *extremely* profitable. We don't hear about criminals that haven't been caught, because they haven't been caught.
Second of all, 90% of rich people are criminals and we all just kind of accept it. E.g. through breaking labour laws. They tend to break laws in ways that save them money, rather than earn them money, but it still ends up in crime absolutely paying.
Edit: people seem to think I'm on about drugs or theft or other 'obvious' crimes that come with prison sentences. I'm talking about crimes where the punishment is a fine, and the fine is of lower value than what the person made (or saved) committing the crime. E.g. getting a fine in the thousands after profiting in the hundreds of thousands. Low risk, high reward.
Take any rich person and Google their name with the word 'fines' e.g. 'Bill Gates fines'. Then consider how many times they've done that without getting caught, and how many times they made more from the crime than the value of the fine.
Its not "how many criminals are super rich?", its "how many super rich people are criminals?"
NsG 3 years ago
I completely agree. But I believe the phrase is only used for those crimes mentioned in the middle paragraph. It's used as a warning to those people for whom Bill Gates-dom is unachievable. I am firmly of the opinion that everyone at my comprehensive will have been told this phrase, while no-one at Eton has ever heard it, because it doesn't apply to them. Consider the target audience
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Hell, the looney extremists gerrymandered voting districts and bribed the Electoral College to elect the most blatantly criminally insane of all their candidates in 2016, who then surrounded himself with more criminals, including his spawn. So we’ve seen confirmation after confirmation of this, even in the highest of offices.
Paul Miller 3 years ago
Add the politicians to the list. No one gets power without money or money without power, and no one gets powerful money through honest means.
#5
“Do well in school and you’ll have a nice house, a good job, and a family before you’re twenty six”
NOPE.
General Anaesthesia 3 years ago
The days when a shoe salesman could afford a happy to stay at home wife (if it's voluntary, no hair off my chest), a ditsy daughter and a randy son. And a Dodge. Now, four jobs couldn't support that lifestyle. And CEOs earned 25 times the average company wage, now more than 400 times.
And i was like WTF!! 3 years ago
AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHaa, this is so "funny". Just 2 days ago my grandpa was lecturing me how, if i got married 10 years ago (when i was 22) and lived with my parents for 10 years, and if my "wife" and i worked, we could separate 1 complete paycheck in savings and just live off of 1 paycheck. I am 32, cant afford to get married with my gf of 3 years, still live with my parents (both my parents and i work) and sometimes still cant have leftover money at the end of the month. I loooove how when my parents/grandparents were younger houses were like 1/10th of the price of today. Just in the last 2 years price for an apartment got up by 200-300 euros per square meters (in Serbia at least). I went to school, i studied, i was a good person, and for what? That i cant afford anything now? Jobs are s**t, cant even afford a plane ticket to gtfo... And then i wonder why people turn to... less legal activities
Jessica Wood 3 years ago
All it gave me was a lack of social skills which made interviews and networking impossible.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
I got my Masters in 2019, and have spent the last three years either unemployed or employed in fields that have nothing to do with my major. One of my instructors recently recommended me for a job—-doing what I was trained for, finally—-with a startup that goes live end of this month. I got the job, which pays well, so I hope it takes off and keeps going, as it’s a really good idea and will provide easy and affordable access to a much-needed service.
Yoga Kitty 3 years ago
Good luck for your new job, hope everything turns out the way you wish!
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KING ILLEGAL FOREST 3 years ago
I'm 38 and long ago accepted the fact that I will never be able to afford anything bigger than a rented one bedroom apartment.
Lisa H 3 years ago
HA!!!! I worked my a*s off in school and I still couldn't do well. COULDN'T. 20 years later and I still absolutely loathe the school system for failing me like they did. Maybe actually LISTEN to your students instead of immediately concluding that they don't know what they're talking about simply because they're kids?
#6
Plastic recycling.
I remember when grocery stores went from paper bags to plastic because "they're recyclable!" Literally everything else started coming wrapped in a ton of plastic (instead of cardboard) because it was recyclable. Single use plastics were great, because we'd just recycle the plastic, and use it forever!
Turns out, it was just cheaper, and recycling had nothing to do with it. Most of that plastic can't be recycled anyway.
Chris Hooley 3 years ago
I never heard any mention of plastic bags (etc,) being recyclable, it was ways about them being cheaper. And at that time, the conservation cry was always "save a tree," so not using paper was good.😂
John Dwyer 3 years ago
The man who 'invented' plastic carrier bags did so because he saw so much paper and cardboard being used once and thrown away, He thought people would use plastic bags over and over again, thus reducing waste. Good intentions but we all know it didn't happen like that.
Blackheart 3 years ago (edited)
The initial idea was that we were running out of trees and paper. We were heavily reliant on paper. Now, due to technology, we are not as paper dependent. Plastic bags can be recycled, but no one did, in part because there was no where to do so. Sadly, it still takes a bit of effort to recycle plastic bags.
Kantami Blossom 3 years ago
Recycling in general. my area threatened people with fines for not recycling properly and putting things into incorrect bins, we later found out it all went to the same landfill anyway.
Susan Jennette 3 years ago
A girl in Africa , I believe, came up with a way to make "bricks" out of plastic bottles.
Joy Hunter 3 years ago
The state of California (often a leader in environmental issues) recently filed suit against a number of major petrochemical companies, because they deceived the public into thinking the plastic problem would be "solved" by recycling. Now more people are starting to realize that was a ie. You know, sort of like the way cigarette companies sold the lie that nicotine wasn't addictive...and they didn't add more of it to the tobacco to get people MORE addicted. It has been come out in the past couple of years that the fossil fuel companies were paying scientists to say that global warming wasn't true. Sound familiar?
Casey Payne 3 years ago
Since their admission in March 2020, the industry has not faced any blowback of any kind, public nor legal. It's massive fraud and a vulgar level of pollution that we, not them, we have to pay to clean up. And there is still plastic wrapped, plastic contained EVERYTHING. It has actually gotten worse since their admission because the news was overshadowed by the pandemic, protests, election, big lie etc. And still face no repercussions for the massive damage they have done and are still doing to us and the planet.
BadCat 3 years ago
The paper bags are absolute s**t now. They're hard to carry. I decided to take one, I still had to pay for it and by the time I got just off the store property the bag was tearing. Went back to the store, it was almost torn in half. Much prefer the reusable bags, or bring a backpack.
One of the lies mentioned on this list is that baby boomers would eventually retire, but for a lot of them, they don’t have the option to yet. Many boomers believe that it was important to set up their children for success in the future, by supporting their education and helping them start their careers, but now it is unlikely that much will be left for retirement and inheritance. Perhaps the lie that they would retire was not so much of a lie as it was a dream of theirs. I am sure they don’t love the idea of working until they are 80 years old.
Up next is Generation X, or those born between the years 1965 to 1979. This group, which is also referred to as the “Latchkey” generation or the MTV generation, currently has around 65 million people and maintains some traditional media habits like their predecessors. Lots of Gen X still reads a physical newspaper, listens to the radio and watches cable TV, but they are much more technologically savvy than their parents. In fact, they tend to spend more hours on Facebook than any other age group.
#7
Meritocracy - that the system will select the best candidate based on ability.
Turns out they never tell you some people are born so far ahead they're starting 3 full laps ahead of you. And also their connections are thicker than the trans-oceanic cables.
ben woskje 3 years ago
Private schools excel at further entrenching these networks and ensuring that high paying positions are given to those that are mates of those in power, rather than those who actually have decent skillsets. While being friends with powerful people has always had benefits - over the past 20-30 years, this seems to have accelerated as far as the level of b******t utilised and the size of the paypackets received by these useless f*****g twats.
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
I've interview and applied for positions that I've been perfectly qualified for and never even gotten a call back only to see the position filled by someone who isn't half as qualified/experienced.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
I was passed over for promotions, where I could’ve done the job in my sleep, in favor of some idiot frat boy who would come in, totally f***s everything up, put his name to my ideas and take full credit, then get a promotion and raise, while I’m left to clean up the s**t he left behind—-for no extra compensation and with zero recognition, by the way—-until the next fuckup frat boy was hired for the job, and the whole process started again. Yeah, companies don’t give a s**t about hiring the most qualified. They’re hiring their frat bros, or people just like themselves and their bros, to preserve their “culture”. Work is NOT a culture. It’s WORK. A place where the best and brightest create a kickass product that revolutionizes _______ (take your pick of needed improvements), and sells a fuckton of it. True profit, not cutting overhead to create the illusion of profit. That does not happen when you ignore the best and brightest and emphasize hiring people you’d like to go pub crawling with instead. No wonder s**t doesn’t work, falls apart, goes to hell in a hand basket, no wonder we’re falling behind the rest of the world. Because the wealthy bros want to preserve the status quo which only benefits themselves, instead of progress toward a status quo that benefits everyone. Best way to do that is to only hire your fellow bros, who are as motivated as you are to stamp out innovation and keep people smarter and more capable, but not as well-connected, out of the workplace. F*****g rigged game that should be illegal.
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Garry Cowan 3 years ago
Nepotism is rampant it's totally unfair to people who are just as qualified but don't have daddy or whatever working in the company
David Force 3 years ago
True. When I was an ambitious and hard working young employee and older employee took me under his wing and told me to get out or the owners idiot grandson would be my boss one day. Best advice I ever got.
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Redemption Happens 3 years ago
I’m old and I’ve learned the hard way life is relationships. It really is about who you know and how well you’re liked. When I look back at my life I wish I would’ve taken antidepressants sooner because I was depressed. I was always the most competent employee but my silence and negative energy closed doors wherever I went. Once I got my depression under control and could easily make friends, I was offered job after job. Unfortunately I’m too exhausted to do those high stress positions.
#8
Gen X-er here... we were told that the boomers would eventually retire. Still waiting for that to happen while rapidly approaching retirement age myself.
Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago (edited)
Who can afford to retire these days and even if you are fortunate enough to have the money, how many of those people are well/fit enough to live their retirement to the fullest?
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Plus, we’re not retiring at 62 or 65, then dying by 70 anymore. We could easily live to 100 and beyond, so who do you know who wants to—-or can even afford to—-spend an entire third of their life in retirement? My plans have always been to work until I physically or mentally can’t, because I realized a long time ago that I come from a family that lives to 100 or at least close (barring any unforeseen accidents), and I am not in the income bracket to support not working and trying to live off payments that equal 75% of my last salary—-with NO adjustments for inflation btw—-plus the few retirement investments I have accumulated (the ones that are left after long term unemployment caused by the pandemic forced me to dip into them to pay bills the last couple years), for 35+ years until I die. Being born in 1960 may technically qualify me as a Boomer, but like GenXers, I was too late and too unconnected to good job prospects, to catch the Boomer Gravy Train.
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Jamie 3 years ago
Gen Xer here. It's not all about retirement. It's more about the iron fist-hold they have on leadership and management. Government and corporations are almost exclusively led by old white men who won't step down and hand the reins over to women or minorities or anyone younger and more familiar with the real world.
Redemption Happens 3 years ago
Agreed and their management style is cut-throat.
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DelvianBlue 3 years ago
Same here. I feel like part of a lost generation. We were told we would get our turn to change things as the last generation retired. I'm in my 40s and still waiting, while the generation after me is also trying to get their chance, and personally I've been told, sometimes by boomers no less, that I'm too old and it's time to step down and let the next generation have their turn. Too many people in my generation were never allowed to step up and have a turn in the first place. I feel like I've been cheated out of something special.
Tim 3 years ago
I'd lay good odds saying we never have a Gen X president in the US.
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George Gameston 3 years ago
Who told you they would retire? The same people that told you that all boomers had it easy and were loaded with cash?
General Anaesthesia 3 years ago
Always seeking to blame a whole generation (just like every generation before you), while the blame, as in every generation, should go to the top. The 'average' 'boomer' can't make ends meet any better than Gen X.
Giddyfish 3 years ago
Oh FFS. Gen X is frequently left out of the "generation wars" because it's smaller as a percentage and no one gives two shits about us. Stop dismissing us when we speak. Better yet - listen. We're observant adults with great perspectives.
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At 64 (born close to the end of the Boomer era) I can't afford to retire. Still have to work full-time to make ends meet. Have not wasted my money, have worked consistently since I started as a casual in a supermarket while at school (16). If I'm lucky I'll be able to retire at 70 and maybe afford to live for another 10 years as long as I don't leave home much. It's a myth that Boomers are all wealthy land owners. I don't want sympathy - I just want millennials to get off my back!!
Michelle Smith 3 years ago
We can't retire or most of us would. Retirement age is closer to 72 than 62
#9
Reaganomics 'Trickle-Down' Theory. It was, and continues to be, a way for massive corporations and the wealthy to avoid paying taxes via loopholes, passing on the lions share of taxation to the middle class and small businesses in America. This has created the astronomical wealth gap in this country, creating more billionaires than ever and making it impossible for families to survive on a single income, let alone afford a home.
Gabby Ghoul 3 years ago
I'll say this again: trickle-down economics is giving more food to the overfed and telling the hungry more crumbs will fall off the table.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Then the crumbs were parked offshore. Money trickles up, not down. Remember, Reagonomics—-trickle down—-was initially called Voodoo Economics for a good reason..
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MAL 3 years ago
F**K REAGAN. He screwed up this country economically and let an entire generation of gay men die because he was a homophobe. I can't wait to spit on his grave someday.
Enlee Jones 3 years ago
Reaganomics gave us Jeff Bezos playing around in space for 10 minutes while his employees p**s in bottles.
Gregg Long 3 years ago
Tickle down economics does just what the name says. It takes a river of money and lets the wealthy dam it up in a big reservoir and horde it. You only get a trickle from a tiny crack in the dam. And as soon as that crack gets too big and the tickle gets to flowing to much the rich make sure to get laws passed or we mysteriously have a recession to stop up that tiny hole. We are about to go into an entirely engineered recession because management is furious about how much power workers have gotten over the course of the pandemic and want to go back to the days of telling workers they ought to be thanking the "job creators" that they even have a job at all.
Megatonberry 3 years ago
Tbh the only thing trickling down from them is all the p**s they are taking.
Some of the most important factors that defined the lives of Gen X were the end of the Cold War, the rapid advancements in personal computing, and feeling torn between two generational identities. When it comes to their banking habits, many of them still prefer to visit their branch in person, but some have transitioned to online financial management. A lot of this generation is under immense financial stress, however, with the pressures of trying to provide for their own families, pay off student debt and take care of their aging parents while looking ahead for their own retirement. On average, Gen Xers have about $142,000 of debt to pay off, but for most people, the bulk of that is from a mortgage.
#10
“It’s a one in a lifetime event! These things don’t happen all the time” - In reference to things like wars, devastating floods, wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, mass shootings/gun violence, terrorist attacks, and now… pandemics, apparently.
How many more ‘once in a lifetime’ freak events am I going to be living through? When can we have some peace and quiet?
Hawkmoon 3 years ago
To be fair, it's a phrase that dates back to the time when life expectancy was around 30 years old.
humdrum 3 years ago
Life expectancy was never 30, if you made it into adulthood, chances were you'd make it to 60 as well.
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NsG 3 years ago
Once in a lifetime events are unconnected to each other. A once in a lifetime flood, plus a once in a lifetime pandemic, plus a once in a lifetime war, and a once in a lifetime meteor shower can all happen in the same year. That doesn't make the phrase a lie. Unrelated unlikely events do not affect the probabilty of othe unlikely events happening. What makes it a lie is the second occurrence (or third if you feel generous - since the second occurrence could be a genuine anomaly).
Party Poison (They/Them) 3 years ago (edited)
A once in a lifetime pandemic is not an anomaly anymore. In the last 40-50 years more and more novel diseases appeared. AIDS, SARS, COVID, Ebola, Marburg, Nipha, Hendra, etc. COVID is only the fourth "Big One" of these, the others are AIDS, SARS and Ebola, and it won't be the last in the next decades. If we don't stop shaking the "viral tree", as David Quammen put it, and stop destroying the natural reservoirs of the hosts, more "things", zoonotic diseases, will fall out of it and we get what we deserve.
Load More Replies... Ogidi Girl 3 years ago
You ain't getting peace an time soon pardner. 90% of these disasters are directly related to human actions and folks have no interest in changing anything.
Living Example 3 years ago
I always love the news videos that show a local sheriff looking at an earthquake, a tornado, and a volcanic eruption simultaneously scratching his head and saying : "I ain't never seen nuthin like it in my entire life!"
Injun Joe 3 years ago
I can somewhat relate though. Even though we see pictures and videos of disasters, it's a whole magnitude of a difference. Been to New Orleans right after Katrina. The things I've seen and done, I rather not repeat. And for the record, I do have PTSD from that experience.
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Bryan With A Why 3 years ago
Well they will continue until we start prosecuting those responsible for wars, death and destruction, terrorist attacks and the pandemic. Sadly there is zero interest now because the people running things are corrupt beyond our understanding even.
Injun Joe 3 years ago
Gosh I hear this every.freaking. year. Hurricanes. Every year they say we're looking at a record breaking year. Every storm, they act like this is the first time. Ok we've been through the Katrina's, Rita's, Audrey's, Danny's to know that hurricanes do not play around. My advice to you for a hurricane? Try to get on the west side. West is best, the east is a beast. For us that is, when the storm is heading northerly. Any time those bands are coming off the water to land, there's trouble. 40+ year hurricane veteran here.
#11
I never imagined I’d say this, but the legitimacy of the American government. It’s a shame.
Shelley Dawson 3 years ago
I'm an outsider but to me, lobbyists have too much power. I think the USA is run by large corporations.
Curtis Dahl 3 years ago
What's sad is the people that go extreme left or right when the liberals and conservatives are 2 sides of the same coin. We have a 2 party system to give us the illusion of choice. Divide and concur, keep us fighting each other to keep us from realizing who the real enemy is
Atero 3 years ago
No, not quite. First of all you don't have "extreme left". What you call left is either center-right or dead center in pretty much every other developed country (UK would be an exception). Take Bernie or AOC for example - their policies are pretty much of what our local (IS) not nuts conservatives are preaching. Second - your dems are proudly bragging of being "broad house", but problem with that is what only "center" policies have a chance of being proposed and when you add division in commons/senate - only "right wing" policies will have a chance to pass.
Load More Replies... Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
A shame and a sham. It’s no longer government for the people, especially once corporations were dubbed “people”.
Bob Cakin 3 years ago
It never really was "government for the people". The constitution was written by white landowning men who wanted to preserve the status-quo of white landowning men controlling the country. They literally didn't want normal people who didn't own any land to be able to vote. The only good founding father was Thomas Paine as he advocated for every man (including black people meaning he was extremely against slavery) being able to vote and the rest of the founding fathers pretty much hated him. He even was a strong advocate for women's rights! In the 1700s! But the rest of them literally hated the idea of equal rights for the poor so they designed the government to favor the rich.
Load More Replies... Chris Hooley 3 years ago
Democracy, period. At best, a popularity contest where the ignorant and uninformed vote for the arrogant and self-absorbed.
David Force 3 years ago
I was a Republican but am an independent now. I will never vote for the deplorable that tried to overthrow our democracy for his own ego.
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blahd zhahd 3 years ago
The biggest problem with a country of the people, by the people and for the people is when the people become complacent, ignorant, and indifferent to their government and how it's supposed to work. These aren't rogue AI, Aliens, or foreign invaders we've elected to office. They are our fellow countrymen that we've allowed to succumb to corruption and we continue to believe their lies for some reason. Every US citizen has a DUTY, yes a DUTY to be involved in their governments actions and to understand HOW our government should work. There's no excuse for not doing so, and it why we're in the situations that we're in. Take a look in the mirror America, we did this.
Seedy Vine 3 years ago
It was built on stolen land by stolen people. Not much legitimacy to begin with.
Mental Liberals 3 years ago
All politicians are corrupt! ALL!! The government is one large oppressive POS!!
KING ILLEGAL FOREST 3 years ago
It hasn't been a true democracy for a long time. It is a plutocracy.
#12
All you have to do is go to college and you'll be successful.
Though it was less of a lie and more just being wrong.
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Monday 3 years ago
Do you think if we downvote bomb a staff comment they'll get auto banned too? Might be a way to get them to consider changing that ridiculous policy.
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Nocallme1 3 years ago
I did better than my parents and I was the first in my family to go to college. I worked hard to get where I am today but I still can't afford a house. My husband and I both work full time jobs and no matter how much we cut back we still cannot save. It's all about the greedy corporations today.
Stephanie Paich 3 years ago
College is extremely useful for the right kind of career path. If you aren't going to be a doctor, nurse, or engineer, you might want to consider whether you NEED a degree. It wouldn't be so bad if tuition didn't increase by a thousand percent every single year. I don't have kids yet. By the time I do and they're 18, college will be a million dollars at this rate. It has to stop.
Perry Sologia 3 years ago
Not so. Many boomers couldn't understand why so many kids with poor academic records were going to college. Much better prospects in a trade. Might mean getting dirty hands though.
Blackheart 3 years ago
I was never told this. I was told, depending on what career path I chose, a college education could HELP me be more successful. For some, technical colleges were a better choice for people who were more mechanically inclined...and they make soooo much more money than I do.
Bryan With A Why 3 years ago
Anyone who told you that was obviously lying. You can't just go, you have to graduate. And it all depends on the degree you get - engineering or law or medicine will be worth it. Liberal arts degrees, not so much.
Ruth Meszaros 3 years ago
I never heard this supposed promise. Going to college is one way to prosper, but we all know many people just wasted the entire period, or chose the wrong path over and over (useless major, drugs and drinking, etc.).
The next generation that we all know and love is Generation Y, better known as millennials. This group was born between the years 1980-1996 and has about 72 million people. Millennials have been shaped by the Great Recession, the exponential growth of the internet and social media and 9/11. Many of them still watch TV, but this generation has embraced online streaming platforms like Netflix wholeheartedly. Most millennials are extremely savvy when it comes to technology and electronic devices, and they usually are active on multiple social media platforms. While they were once mocked for their stereotypical obsessions with avocado toast and lack of care for their finances, it can’t be denied that millennials have been placed in an extremely hard position for saving up for their futures.
#13
“You have a future.”
Nah. We might have done, but you stripmined the planet for profit, you stripmined our consciousnesses and experiences for profit, you stripmined our health and our wants and needs for profit. You lied, and lied again. You put your happiness above the futures. You decided the developing world was just shapes on a map and marginalised them.
You went to the ballot box and voted in the wreckers, the lairs, the confidence tricksters, the three-cup-trick fakes, the find-the-lady conartists, and you did it with a smile. You did it while you told us that you did it with your bootstraps and walked uphill each way and you came from nothing and you did this while you plugged up your ears and you covered your eyes and you told us the internet was bad and never learned about it.
You told us change wasn’t possible and that the system was working. You told us that we weren’t working hard enough, that our avocados were too luxurious. You told us to take the bus in the society you took public services away from. You told us to pay our taxes to politicians you elected who pocketed them.
You said we had a future.
You f*****g lied. We will burn in megafires or die in the water wars or drown as the sea floods our communities with water we cannot drink or be annihilated in the nuclear stars we bring down from the sky because you thought you could bomb for peace or in the nuclear winter that you’ll say disproves climate change.
You lied. You knew it and you lied again and you are still lying.
Chris Hooley 3 years ago
Very well written!👏👏..... but you missed a key point: We could all enjoy an upper-middle-class developed-world standard of living with free-range fair-trade steaks and organic mungbeans, if the whole world's population was kept to 300-400 million. But we breed like flies. It's everyone's unalienable right to make as many oxygen-thieves as they want, regardless of the impact it may have on others.
Eat Dirt Crow 3 years ago
Be careful, thoughts like this lead to eugenics. I shouldn't have to tell you how that turns out.
Load More Replies... steve douglas 3 years ago
You seem to believe that us boomers got to vote in whomever we wanted and we made awful choice from some great candidates. We've had worthless choices our whole voting lives. Just like you. It's nothing boomerish that the lousiest of the lousy are all that runs for public office.
Roman Hans 3 years ago
That's exactly it. I always wanted to vote Green but Dems needed every vote they could get to keep Repub sociopaths out of office.
Load More Replies... Kevin Ber 3 years ago
Anyone that says anything bad about socialism is an extremely dangerous person, I like roads, firefighters, proper municipal planning, good public schools, well paid teachers, traffic lights, etc etc. I don't not trust corporations to run things instead of the government I pay taxes to, because Me and my community pick my government, the corporations that provide those services are only accountable to their stock holders and profits.
Enlee Jones 3 years ago
My future is to see if I die at my desk before climate change kills me.
Mary Rogers 3 years ago (edited)
Only if you give up and accept that future. Change is taking place, even though it is too slow. And scientists are working on affordable means to remove carbon from the atmosphere. If you are American, vote Democrat, even if you don't think it makes a difference. If everyone eligible to vote actually voted, we would see a difference.
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Geoffrey Pitman 3 years ago
You realize that every generation has supposedly been the "last" right?
Mary Rogers 3 years ago (edited)
Geoffrey, I both agree and disagree with you. On the one hand you are right. On the other hand the new generation is facing enormous challenges(man made climate change) that no one in history has ever faced before. But I agree that it is not as hopeless a situation as OP says in the post.
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WoodenLion 3 years ago
i think this guy thinks all boomers are liars. we gave you the information we had at the time. i don't get to run the world.
Jovmen 3 years ago
I agree, I don't like when people generalize people in a generation. Within context this seems to refer to those elite in control of power, money, and influence. Many boomers are victims of their powerful peers as well.
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Mary Rogers 3 years ago (edited)
That may be true, but that has been the lot of every single new generation since humanity began. I do get that in many ways the stakes are higher now because of things like climate change but even though we are not moving fast enough on it, change is taking place and scientists are working on ways to remove carbon from the air so even that situation is not hopeless.
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Brandie Litchfield 3 years ago
Reminds me of a quote, "bombing for peace, is like f***ing for virginity" I want to upvote this post a million times, and see it printed on full page in every newspaper! I'm scared of the future my children will inherit, or the ugly blatant racism that my son will face, I'm scared for the future that all of these children will face....
#14
Be loyal to a company, give 100% and they will take care of you, after 20 years you’ll retire with a pension.
Serial pacifist 3 years ago
I’ve been working for the Umbrella Corporation for quite some time, and the benefits are actually great, they even give you free medicines and stuff.
Nathaniel 3 years ago (edited)
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General Anaesthesia 3 years ago
That was still true for many people 60 years ago or so. Factory jobs, coal mining, whatever, you could work at one company for your whole life. Then came Milton Friedman (a corporation's only duty is to the stockholders), runaway capitalism and globalization.
Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 3 years ago
This one just makes me laugh with cynicism. I'm a younger Gen-X (not quite a millennial) and I've never had a "permanent job" even at places I've worked for a decade. Big multinational companies. For years now they've paid all new hires as "contractors" with very minimally higher wages but not healthcare, no benefits, no connection to HR, no pension, nothing like that, you can work there a decade, get ONE month's notice that your job no longer exists and therefore they're letting you go with zero security. And the more people they hire in this way, at the same time they go through all the people about 10 years from retirement and make their jobs obsolete and let them go too. Meaning their pensions are reduced, they also have no job security, and also now struggle to get a new job in their 60's
I Drink Your Milkshake! 3 years ago (edited)
Be careful how much you love the company, you might find out how much they love you back... edit: somebody clever said it better than that but I can’t remember who?
Robert T 3 years ago (edited)
I'm not sure this has ever been true as working life is more like 40 years. If you take it as 40 years, then it was true for my dad, but it is still not true for me. I've been lucky with employers and they have taken care of me, but there isn't sufficient job security to work for one company for all your working life. Getting a pension set up when you are young and paying into it along with your employer, will be worth more than setting one up later in life and then trying to catch up.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Companies don’t give a s**t about loyalty, or even ability, when they can either hire someone cheaper, though a totally unqualified fuckup, for your job, or put their equally unqualified, total fuckup, friends or children in it—-for more money, of course, nonsensically.
Sue User 3 years ago
Yep. Worked at HP. They did a huge buyout of older workers to hire more contractors.
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#15
"You can be anything you want"
Not everyone can become a millionaire astronaut and rockstar and professional gamer and parent. There is a reason why some us have the most boring jobs anyone can think of
Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago (edited)
So you're telling me I will never become a real life mermaid? Well that's disappointing.
BusLady 3 years ago
I hate these YouTube ads where a 20 something guy is bragging about how he became a millionaire with his online business, and you too can become a millionaire before you're 30, and he can show you how to do it. I picture all the people watching this and feeling like a failure because they slave away at a humdrum job to support their families.
BadCat 3 years ago
I never believe them. Likely Scientologists pushing their over priced "Get rich" books. Came across them many years ago not knowing what Scientology was, and these ladies were handing out pamphlets about some program that helps people be more successful. I humored them and they offered to come by to their program. I wasn't expecting to buy anything, just hear them out and check out what they were on about, and it turned out I was the only one that showed up. They got me to watch some video showing people in different situations of their life seemingly happy but miserable, addicts and living double lives or something. They were also going on about how governments and authority use manipulation. It was an interesting video but I had more questions than anything. They showed me a book they wanted me to buy. It was too much, anyways and I wasn't interested. These ladies must have read and memorized this book like a pastor knows the Bible. One of them turned to a page and told me to read it
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Amanda Fondaumiere 3 years ago
Remember they look down on the jobs that keep society going, too. Like trash workers, retail workers.
Máté Jancsek 3 years ago
Can be anything you want. Yes. But if you forget to tell us the options, forbid, to experience and explore, because you know better, then we will be nothing.
Sue User 3 years ago
As sad as this list is, i am reading it to avoid going to work, which is soul crushing.
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Nonna_SoF 3 years ago
You can't be president of the United States if you weren't born with citizenship.
Injun Joe 3 years ago
Yes you can. If I remember correctly, you would have to have been living in the country for x amount of years. But I could be wrong..many years since I've read about presidential requirements and such.
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When it comes to how millennials choose to conduct their banking, most of them have no preference of brand. Instead, they prioritize efficiency and excellent service, so apps and digital tools are widely used by millennials to manage their finances. And although this generation makes a huge dent in the workforce, lots of Gen Y is saddled with student debt. Due to a variety of factors including inflation, the recession, and education becoming more expensive, millennials have a hard time reaching financial stability. Contrary to the misconception that many of them have no desire to own a home or settle down, lots of millennials just have not had the opportunity to consider those paths yet, due to worrying about how to provide for themselves.
#16
Affordable homes.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Yet, instead of building more small affordable starter homes, or redeveloping existing city buildings for affordable apartments—-not Section 8 housing, though we need housing for the homeless, improved housing for the poor, and some way of lifting them all out of that level—-I mean affordable for the average middle class income, new developments are building more overpriced and badly built McMansion type s**t that stays empty forever. Developers: you could more quickly sell out whole developments full of affordable starter homes, and rent or sell affordable apartments/condos in refurbished urban buildings, than you could sell one single badly built overpriced McMansion, much less sell out the entire development. It ain’t rocket science.
Geoffrey Pitman 3 years ago
Point to a development full of empty expensive houses. They are empty forever right?
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JPotts 3 years ago
My rent has increased by $7,200 a year in the last 10 years. How can I save for anything?
Injun Joe 3 years ago
That's why we bought an El Remo. Paid out with cash. Almost done with remodeling. Already in planning stages of selling it and heading up north with a few acres and unrestricted living. Done with living with other people's rules. Can't make some improvements without a permit. Why a permit? I paid for the house and lot, why do I need to spend more on a paper and also what I can or can't have in my yard?! And yes, I keep my yard looking immaculate. One of my pet peeves. We paid for it, we're proud of our yard! Wife actually fusses at me for cutting the grass as I do. Just one of those...it's my yard, I'm show casing it!
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Is “El Remo” the new name for the “Handyman’s Special”?
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Sheri Muntean 3 years ago
We had a developer who got to violate city guidelines to build "affordable homes." They went on the market at $325k, and that was pre-COVID!
Lara Verne 3 years ago
In town nearby they build few apoartment buildings, They talked about how they build affordable homes for young people, etc. Guess what happened? They sold apartments at auction, and some company bought whole buildings. They now renting apartments for horrendous prices. So much for "affordable homes".
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
When I bought my house, I was a decade older than my parents were when they bought their first house. I spent 5 times as much as they did for about the same size house and property.
Uber Mensch 3 years ago
Homes CAN be affordable, and easily. You just can't make them big, out of high-dollar materials, stuff them full of expensive c**p, and finance a half-million-dollar home on minimum wage.
#17
The “American Dream”
Serial pacifist 3 years ago
Well, it remains a dream for 99% Americans, so not entirely a lie.
Edgar 3 years ago
From outside, it doesn't seem that way. For the left, it works for only 1%. So, difficult to get a good view on this. But seen from Europe, the American dream is definitely over.
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Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
"What happened to us? What happened to the American Dream?" "What happened? It came true! You're lookin' at it."
goldenviper gaming 3 years ago
as george carlin put it, "it's called the american dream, 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it." he was the shakespeare of comedy and this statement by him could not be any more true.
Lioness Nature 3 years ago
The biggest lie about America. It's an American night terror disguised as a dream in facade. Also the lie about America being great. We don't even have universal healthcare like 43 other countries do successfully. America never was, isn't, and won't ever be great or the greatest country. Stop lying. And for those who "say it could be worse like third world". It also could be a million times better a long time ago, but people between rich capitalist to politicians to fascist Christian conservatives don't want that. And those who say "don't like it leave" . Newsflash, no other country wants Americans as perminent citizens. Americans are a digrace to them. At the very least the butt of a joke. A laughing stock. Rightfully so. The American dream my as*. Only white men and women from money. It's not a dream it's their white privileged systemic reality they're living.
#18
"Cheaters never prosper" is only true on a small scale.
Yes, if you cheat on all of your homework then at some point your lack of knowledge in the subject will catch up to you and people will figure it out, but on a larger scale, some of the most successful people in the world are terrible people who broke the law and got away with it.
Matthew Goss 3 years ago
If you donate enough to a politician, they'll change the law so what you're doing is no longer considered cheating.
Bryan With A Why 3 years ago
There is a serious accountability problem worldwide, I'll give you that. We have insanely high levels of unchecked corruption. It's time to start cleaning house before it all collapses and kills everyone.
Šimon Špaček 3 years ago
Elon Musk? His starships are still not there, hyperloop is still CGI (I know, there were some tests. Without vacuum so it doesn't count), solarcity is a joke,...
Next up is Generation Z, or those born between the years 1997-2012. This generation has about 68 million individuals and is famous for knowing how to use smartphones before they could talk and being obsessed with the app TikTok. Most of them actually received their first cell phones at age 10, but having access to their parents’ devices meant they never experienced a life without smartphones and the internet. The average Gen Zer spends about 3 hours on their cell phone every day. I mean, they can't leave their Instagram and TikTok fans hanging, right? American zoomers have also never known a country that was not at war, and many of them have seen the financial struggles of their parents impact their lives. Gen Zers are also known for being socially aware, open minded and politically active.
#19
Electric cars.
Everyone claims they are good for the enviroment, but that statement could not be farther from the truth.
First of all, to gather lithium used in batteries, you have to mine for it, which is horrible because of how dirty it is.
Second of all, and the most important one, lithium battery packs don't last forever. When they go bad, you have to replace them and there is no clean way of recycling lithium.
Third things third, if a battery pack is defective, it's a danger to the driver, passangers and potentially others around. If let's say the protective layer of the battery pack gets damaged and the lithium comes into contact with water it's goodnight for you if you don't react fast enough.
Lastly, the price of electric vehicles is ridiculous, what average person will ever be able to afford a car that costs more than a small house. And some of them (I won't point fingers at any manufacturer here) have terrible quality for their pricepoint. Tl;dr, EVs are overpriced.
So over all, you are better off driving and maintaining your old car for a long period of time rather than buying a tesla or something. Every politician just likes to point to cars, yet they don't seem to notice that planes pollute the enviroment so much more, yet nobody cares about that.
Aran Lindvail 3 years ago
That's mostly BS. Current electric car batteries live around 15 years, AND can easily be recycled. So resources like lithium aren't "gone", but can be mostly reused. (Lithium is also used in conventional cars, or smartphones btw). There's not really any evidence that electric cars burn more often or anything like that - and a burning diesel is not exactly safe either. EVs might be expensive, but that's only bc the damage to the environment is not factored into the price of conventional cars. And the biggest CO2 emissions come from neither planes nor cars, but from the infrastructure and power needed for the internet. So that i can uselessly yell at people on BP.
Thundercuss 3 years ago
Thank you for providing some clarity. Lithium ion batteries are 100% recyclable, btw. https://greencitizen.com/blog/lithium-ion-battery-recycling/
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Robert T 3 years ago
Right now electric cars simply move where the pollution occurs. Instead of being emitted on the streets of our towns and cities it is emitted from the power stations that generate the electricity. However, power generation is slowly getting greener, and if you can have your own solar panels or wind turbine, you can effectively charge your car for free. Prices are starting to come down now as the technology becomes more mainstream. Would I buy one? No, not yet, as I live in an apartment with a shared garage, so at home charging isn't currenly possible, and the charging infrastructure away from home is not there yet. By the time I come to change the city runabout, the next one might be electric. However, my classic and main car, which are both petrol, will stay, but they do very limited mileage, and in future may have to run on synthetic petrol.
Colin Matthews 3 years ago
Yes agreed. Just moved it sideways. Hydrogen fuel cells are the future, but gotta start somewhere
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iseefractals 3 years ago
All of that is actively dumb. EV's are 85-90% fuel efficient, compared to combustion engines, where the absolute best is 21% efficiency. A typical CE car produces 1 tonne of Co2 every 2500 miles driven, while an 80kwh batter found in a Tesla can be produced emitting as little as 2.4 tonnes of Co2, meaning once you hit the 6000 mile mark, you're ahead of the CE car. When talking about the emission impact of CE cars, we're only looking at the impact of the end consumer burning it, it's not accounting for all the damage wrought during extraction, refinement and shipping it all over the globe. Yes electric cars are expensive, because despite electric vehicles dating back to 1832, it's only in the past 15 years or so that the industry has treated them as a viable product. What you're failing to understand here, is it really doesn't matter how you feel about it, or what rationalization you or big oil wants to come up with. Fossil fuel use needs to STOP
iseefractals 3 years ago
The transition should have been underway for nearly 50 years by this point, we should have been pursuing and refining alternative much more aggressively during that time. Instead, decades have been spent focusing on improving efficiency or trying to game environmental protection standards. Everything, that everyone of us does has an environmental toll. The usage of CE cars account 27% of total emissions in the US, a country that accounts for 4.125% of the global population, yet is responsible for 11% of global emissions.
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Zobi123 3 years ago
In theory...in practice, it's a huge time suck and stressor.
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you are forgetting a much worse thing which is the cost of charging. In our country electricity is scarce and rationed. There's no way in the next 10 years we are going to be able to have electric cars, for this reason. Moreover, coal stations are still important and they are providing the electricity, so the carbon is just moving from the car to the power station.
Ross Bernard 3 years ago
We would need about 25% more electricity than we currently produce to replace all ICE cars with EVs.
Load More Replies... Kevin Ber 3 years ago
This is the lie being told by those that hate change. Yes Lithium is mined, but when it comes to recycling, cars are almost always recycled, including their batteries. A car will never end up in a landfill. Electric cars do not add to air pollution, thats the key to preventing climate change. They add to land pollution, but land pollution does not change the temperature of the planet. Electric cars are not 100% environmentally friendly, they have their pros and cons. But if you compare the pros and cons of an electric vehicle to a gas powered one, the electric is better. This lie that is printed above is made by people that don't understand the basic reality of any form of transportation that isn't a person walking. Every vehicle requires mining, not all material is 100% recycled, all forms of transportation is dangerous and yes Lithium is a toxic substance.
Brett Coop 3 years ago
I know it isn't the case for everyone but we got our EV used for less than $15k. I'm not saying I know it is better for the environment but we are paying less than a quarter of what we payed for gas, and that was at $2 a gallon. I can't imagine what the difference would be now. Just because something doesn't work for your personal situation doesn't mean it isn't good for someone.
LeighAnne Brown-Pedersen 3 years ago
I drive a hybrid and I love it. It seems like they’re abandoning hybrid technology for all electric and it seems like a missed opportunity. And our electric grid is still heavily dependent on fossil fuels so where does the juice come from you plug into your wall.
Atero 3 years ago
While hybrids work for you - main reason for abandoning (rather excluding hybrids from various incentives) is the fact what they are rarely used as they supposed to. Statistically less than 30% of plug-ins are actually being "plugged in". They are loved by fleets because of tax breaks but very few organizations have charging infrastructure for it and time to let them charge. Finally, when plug-in is used as regular gas burner you are stuck with far less efficient vehicle comparing to pure ICE. So, on a big scale - what's the point ?
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#20
Growing up everyone i ever met said to never get a credit card. The only way to buy a house is with credit and the only way to actually get credit is a credit card. In my life I paid off 3 vehicles early only to be told the second they were paid off my credit was dropped to a no rating because I wasnt actively in debt.
(Anti)Social Penguin 3 years ago
I don’t really understand how the credit score it’s calculated in the US, but it seems to be so f****d up. In my country, the credit score is calculated based on age, gender (i don’t understand why), education, job. The only thing that is affected by other loans is the amount of money you can get (since you can’t exceed a certain percent of your income). Why would i have a higher credit score if i am already in lots of debts?
It's Me 3 years ago
It’s horrible. It’s just another way for corporations to make money. And the whole identity theft thing is more racket. No one helps you when your identity is stolen. Seriously. They act like you shouldn’t have had it stolen.
Load More Replies... Robert T 3 years ago
Credit scores really are a load of rubbish. You have to have debt which you can show that your are actively managing in order to get a decent score. Finish paying your loan or mortgage and your score will go down. The best way build your score is to have a credit card that you pay off every month without fail - you never pay interest so it doesn't cost you and frequently credit cards will offer some kind of insurance on purchases over a certain value, and in the event of a dispute, you won't be out of pocket whilst it's sorted out either.
Sue User 3 years ago
Bank of America is bad. But they did back me when purchased fake product off ebay when ebay would not.
Load More Replies... General Anaesthesia 3 years ago
It wasn't a lie at the time; then corporate America changed the rules to enrich the already very well off.
Kayla Black 3 years ago
I live in Australia and here you can get a credit score by using credit or not using credit. Bad credit scores come from not paying back credit here. I've never owned a credit card, the only credit I had was a phone bill and my credit score was off the charts when I was buying a house. I think that's the right way to do it
Frank Tereschak 3 years ago
It's a conspriacy, they don't teach money management in school anymore. It's like they want you to be financially ignorant, they won't teach you how to balance a checkbook, yet they let you sign away your life in student loans for a worthless degree then promise to write it off as long as you keep voting for Democrats. I counselled a young couple with a terrible credit score. I asked why did you default on a loan to a jewelry store? She said it was her engagement ring, and they stopped paying because she lost the ring. She didn't understand why she had to finish paying off the loan.
Blackheart 3 years ago
You need a credit card now, provided you pay the bill in full and on time. You can make online purchases, build credit, and many have a points reward system that is like free money.
#21
If you work hard anything is possible. It helps but doesn’t guarantee you anything.
Injun Joe 3 years ago
Hahaha...if you work hard, someone else will take the credit and get promoted. Then you're still working harder hoping for your boss to see how dedicated you are but they're too busy with someone under the desk. The one under that desk is no one other than the one taking your credit and hard work.
Roman Hans 3 years ago
"Most people are too busy working to make any money."
Load More Replies... Lioness Nature 3 years ago
Work just enough. Never clean your slate. That just gives your employer the idea to give you more work. Also stop taking on more work that's not in your job description unless you get a raise for that added work responsibility. We're a team, we're family, be a team player, work hard play hard. BS. Teams get payed a fair and sustainable/livable wage. Families are easier to cut out without consequences when you're being taken advantage of by them. Work to death, play the game employers deal with no way to win. Because employers write the rules that work in their favor no matter what. Well, until everyone quits and new hires avoid the company.
Colin Timp 3 years ago
To an extent. The problem is that in corporate America, hard work is rewarded with more work. Worse yet, if you're too good at your job, you'll never be promoted. Never in my working career have I ever seen the best person promoted.
Nocallme1 3 years ago
Work hard but be taken advantage of. Also, the more you work hard the less the company thinks of you.
Nocallme1 3 years ago
Learned everything at one job and when I asked for a raise I was told they couldn't give me one. Found out a few people did one job and got paid more than me. After that, I refused to learn more than one job and I only do the bare minimum.
Load More Replies... Chris Hooley 3 years ago
Unfortunately, I thought working hard meant getting stuck-in and getting the job done, even if it means getting dirty and breaking a sweat. What it actually means, is doing a heap of education you don't really enjoy in order to maybe get the chance of doing a job you don't like but have to put up with for a decade as a sort of twisted apprenticeship to then maybe get the chance of being able to apply for a job you don't hate. Which you might not get.
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
Hard work doesn't guarantee jack s@#$#. Only in cases where it is soled based on performance with no external influence does that work and even that is rare these days.
Although Gen Zers are young, they have seen the financial struggles of millennials, so many of them have adopted a fiscally conservative approach to managing their finances. They are fearful of being plunged into debt and seek out resources to help them stay on top of their money. Many of them prefer debit cards over credit cards, and because they are so internet savvy, it is assumed that they all use mobile banking. Lots of zoomers actually are interested in personal finance as well, so they might be able to save more than the previous generation and actually look forward to retirement.
#22
“Doesn’t matter what subject your degree is in, just having one gets your foot in the door!”
LeighAnne Brown-Pedersen 3 years ago
No! It totally matters what your degree is. And please never discount or look down on trades, electricians, plumbers, HVAC guys, they make great money. Humanitarian degrees don’t.
Stephanie Paich 3 years ago
EXACTLY! And people forget, we NEED there to be people in those trades. If your toilet doesn't work or your heating/cooling breaks, a financial advisor with an MBA isn't gonna help you.
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JPotts 3 years ago
The higher your degree, the fewer jobs available to you. I was too educated for many jobs I applied to.
Brocken Blue 3 years ago
Yup… so frustrating! I once ended a years-long streak of unemployment in part because I learned to leave off my full educational credentials when applying for retail work.
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Ladytron 3 years ago
Yes and no. Yes, any degree will make you more attractive or "qualified" to a job that doesn't really require any degree. But your degree matters a lot if you actually want to work and advance in your field - especially financially. I have a degree in social work and could easily get a job (we always need social work) but no matter what I do I'll never really be in it to make money. Lots of people without degrees earn more than I'll ever make. So yes, it matters.
Almandrine Tay 3 years ago
It depends on so many factors. When we were to choose where to study, we were discouraged from linguistics, because no one will hire. Than SSC boom started and everyone with a rare language knowledge was hired and paid fair. A bit of luck is needed for life.
Mosheh Wolf 3 years ago
It does, but any degree is better than none (unless you went into deep debt getting your degree)
Richard Reese 3 years ago
The spirit behind the say is meant to show that you are educated and can be educated. It shows you are not incompetent to a potential employer. This is also an old saying when people went to school using typewriters. When specialized education was not needed as much. For example, my father had a bachelor's in physical education and ended up as a bank president. Those days are behind us with the speed of change and the knowledge to keep up.
#23
“You have it much easier”...
NsG 3 years ago
Which means both the person who said this and the person who is calling it a lie can be wrong.
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Demongrrrrl 3 years ago
Just because my life is different from yours, that doesn't mean it's easier.
It's Me 3 years ago
Than what? Than whom? My father? The people living in poverty? I didn’t put them there. And my father was born into poverty. He blames Roosevelt (because literally Roosevelt put his family in poverty). Does that mean I can blame Roosevelt? Because I blame the American government.
Hobby Hopper 3 years ago
You know why 4 year olds cry about silly things? Because that might literally be the worst thing that's ever happened to them. To them, it is a big deal.
BadCat 3 years ago
Exactly. Can't stand it when adults mock kids for crying. As if they were never kids themselves and cried.
Load More Replies... Bryan With A Why 3 years ago
Thank you! To think someone has it easier just because they're X is foolish and ignorant. Yes, even if X means they're white, male, straight, not mentally ill, well paid, etc.
bugsway Frisk 3 years ago
I'm very much an example of that... I didn't even graduate the 6th grade. Thanks to my worthless parents...
Suzanne Tilson 3 years ago
Nah ma'am and you didn't either. So let's accept that society screwed us over
#24
Medicare and social security will protect you. Based on how things are going, anyone with 30 years or more before retirement better have strong backup plans
CHRIS DOMRES 3 years ago
Used to be very little difference between a Democrat and a Republican. Now it is obvious the Republicans are only concerned with power and not the lives of the people.
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Colin Timp 3 years ago
Not for long if the GOP has its way. They want to phase out SS and medicare. I guarantee that it'll be gone a year before I reach 65.
Geoffrey Pitman 3 years ago
Another thing that's been said to scare you, it was all going to be gone 20 years ago...
Paul Jordan 3 years ago
From the states here…I am 35, with a wife who requires medication literally every day for the rest of her life. I have a 9-year old daughter. I Am Terrified
Bryan With A Why 3 years ago
The way things are going those who want to live more than 10 years longer (yes, including 80 year old retirees) better start getting a backup plan.
The Captain 3 years ago
Thank the Democrats for taxing Social Security 3 separate times. The only solution is to put term limits on congress.
Mental Liberals 3 years ago
It's always been a scam!! It's always been a profit making scam for the government!!
Last but not least, Generation Alpha is the group of kids under 10 right now, as well as anyone born between now and 2025. They are too young for us to know their banking habits, but it is assumed that they will use a purely digital approach, as they will be the most technologically integrated generation yet. They will grow up being able to see their parents’ social media accounts and be shaped by the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, the social justice movement, the Trump presidency and Brexit. It is possible that they will never even carry cash, and things like CDs and VHS tapes will seem like ancient history to them.
#25
Tattoos and piercings are going to keep you from having a stable income in a good company.
LeighAnne Brown-Pedersen 3 years ago
Face tattoos ? Sorry, but if you tattoo profanity across your face???
Load More Replies... Rick Seiden 3 years ago
Depends a lot on where the tattoo is. If it's on your upper arm and you are a banker, you'll always have it covered and it won't impact you at all. If it's on your face, you'll never be a banker.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
My local fancy pants Christian private school hired a teacher with full sleeve tattoos on both arms. He wasn't asked to keep them covered either.
BadCat 3 years ago
LOL This what my mom preached all the time. It really depends on what career you have and the industry, and if the people in a conservative place is willing to open their minds.
Gary Moss 3 years ago
Hoping that conservatives, like the 80% who believe Trump won in 2020, are willing to open their minds is not a viable career plan.
Load More Replies... Eat Dirt Crow 3 years ago
The biggest thing that keeps me from getting tattooed isn't the pain or the shame I'll feel from others. I just can't get myself to shell out that kinda cash. I have so many other things to spend my money on. Granted, it's probably the only thing that you take with you when you die.
Chris Hooley 3 years ago
If you can't hide a tatt with a business-shirt (or equivalent,) then it will cut your job options in half....still plenty of good opportunities, but only half as many as you had before you decided to get Cthulu on your neck.
Nicki 3 years ago
It really depends on who your boss is/going to be, also if you are customer facing or not. I have multiple tattoos and piercings and I have worked at a Fortune 500 company as a data scientist for the last 12 years. I work with engineers that have full sleeves. I am not customer facing, but my resume and education speak for itself. Not sure if it matters, but I am a late Gen-xer 😊
#26
Bachelors Degree guarantees a good paying job.
J Bo 3 years ago
So many degrees that don't have a good return on investment. Schools are selling false dreams.
Kayla Black 3 years ago
I think degrees are more of a "look I have the dedication to get a degree" more than the actual subject studied in some cases. It shows you can work hard, coz that ain't easy
Rob Eman 3 years ago
I think you just described everything on the BA side of the line and virtually none on the BS side. Stick to the physical facts of reality and you will make more money and utilize portions of your degree; rather than being a good dreamer or memorizer. That's my experience.
Load More Replies... Lioness Nature 3 years ago
I don't know about any other country but in America college and education in general is a business. Employers see your degree as a piece of paper with a gold star on it as of it came from a kindergarten classroom.
Bryan With A Why 3 years ago
Anyone selling you a "guarantee" on anything should be doubted to the highest degree possible.
Kevin Ber 3 years ago
Companies don't want people with Bachelor degrees anymore, they want experience.
Well then 3 years ago
In my experience they want both. And even if you get in without a degree, you'll have trouble getting promoted without one. Seen it happen to more than a few people.
Load More Replies... Mosheh Wolf 3 years ago
Not having a degree or a profession guarantees that you will likely never get a good paying job.
Colin Timp 3 years ago
I think that we need more than one minimum wage. If a job requires a degree, it should have a higher minimum wage. Too many jobs currently require a degree for salaries around $30,000-$35,000. How are you supposed to pay for school?
Stephanie Paich 3 years ago
I made more pushes boxes down an assembly line at a Hello Fresh warehouse than I'm making in my current IT role with a Bachelors.
#27
That cow's milk is necessary for human development.
Mayra 3 years ago
My lactose intolerance begs to differ… but I still eat cheese because eff it 😂
Robert T 3 years ago
Hard cheeses and butter contain less lactose than milk. I buy lactose-free milk, yoghurt and cheese, which don't taste any different, but are much better for my poor innards. The only thing I really miss is milk chocolate, as nobody seems to do a proper lactose-free milk chocolate, and the dairy-free ones are not the same.
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Autistic apricot 3 years ago
Can you provide source? Im intrigued by this
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Rick Seiden 3 years ago
Never hear this one. I've heard it makes your bones stronger because of the calcium, but never that it's necessary.
Jessica butts 2 years ago
It's not absolutely necessary but it is very adaptive if you can digest it as it is a healthy, easy, and relatively inexpensive source of macronutrients, calcium and vitamin D, especially for picky eaters. Almost all orthopedists still recommend it if you can digest it.
Rick Hoppenbrouwer 3 years ago
Humans are the only animal that drinks the milk of another animal.
While the lies told to younger generations are usually intended to be harmless, or not even viewed as lies at all, they can still be powerful. It's important to understand where every generation is coming from and take their advice with a grain of salt. The world changes rapidly, so even if your parents were able to afford a house when they were 25, that does not mean you will. Keep upvoting the responses that you agree with the most, and then feel free to let us know in the comments what you feel like your generation was lied to about. And let's all try hard to be honest with the younger generations. Even if the truth hurts, they deserve to hear it.
#28
(Millennial) That you can do literally anything you set your mind to. Like sorry no, most people are not capable of becoming pro athletes or astronauts. And that’s ok!
Edited to add: I’m referring to the Disney-style bootstrap mentality that implicitly frames high-visibility, low-frequency careers as successful. Like other responses have noted, achieving goals takes more than just hard work, and success is way more than just job title.
Izzy Curer 3 years ago
Just remember that 'picking yourself up by your bootstraps' was originally meant to mean something that was physically impossible
Lioness Nature 3 years ago
You can be anything you want to be as long as you're good at it, and they're hiring.
aj B 3 years ago
provided the boss' golf buddy doesn't have a nephew who "needs the experience" anyhow.
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King Joffrey 3 years ago
Sorry but this is a cliche straight out of a self-help book. The problem is millions of people have talent, 'put their minds to it' and work really hard but only a miniscule fraction will become like JK Rowling/Cristiano Ronaldo. I'm not saying to give up on your dreams but using the examples of super-successful people like Elon Musk (whose father, surprise, surprise, owned a 50% stake in an emerald mine) is as useful as using the examples of lottery winners.
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You will always have to write in cursive.
censorshipsucks 3 years ago
don't know what the fuss is about cursive. I only write in cursive. Sure, I type much more than I hand-write, but if I hand-write it is cursive.
Tessb90 3 years ago
I write in cursive when I have to write something down quickly. Deciphering what I'd written at a later date is another matter entirely.
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Julius Zuke 3 years ago
People who dismiss cursive writing as unnecessary forget that much of our history was recorded in cursive, If you can't read cursive, a lot of information from the past will be unaccesible to you. Eliminating the teaching of cursive keeps a lot of people from a lot of information.
Tamra 3 years ago
I've heard this argument before, and I tend to disagree. Any important documentation that's been written in cursive has likely already been transcribed into printed or digitized form. Although I thought it was a bit odd when I learned that my son would not be taught cursive.
Load More Replies... Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Cursive can help you create a signature that is personal, harder to forge, and can’t be easily hacked. It’s not a bad skill to have.
BadCat 3 years ago
tbh, some people just half a*s it and it becomes their signature for life. You can change it up, though, but your style of writing (which way the letters lean, the spacing in between words, the size of font, little details and inflections of the letters, flow, smoothness and speed) will automatically be natural. Even someone who forges carefully will leaving revealing tell-tale signs of it being a fake signature to the trained eye.
Load More Replies... Monday 3 years ago
If you take a look at my handwriting you'll change that stance. My print writing is ugly enough, my cursive is downright horrifying.
Load More Replies... Stephanie Paich 3 years ago
In middle school, we were forced to write everything in cursive. In high school, the teachers were like "we will murder anyone who writes illegibly, just print it if you write messy cursive." I hate writing in cursive, it's much slower than print and mine looks awful, exactly the same as it did the first day I wrote it.
Everybody's Got One 3 years ago
I use cursive for signatures, and lettering for nearly everything else graphoed. I got my first used typewriter in 1962 and my first draft is almost never written by hand. I enjoy writing in cursive but I can think much faster than I can write so I sacrifice elegance for speed.
#30
1) If you are super-focused a motivated you'll get a great result.
No, you can't replace years of study and experience with good motivation.
2) Find your dream and persue that, don't do any other activities.
You can be happy without doing your dream job and you can change path during your life. You can be happy without evolving your passion to a career.
3) Choose your future right after high school or you won't be able to study anymore.
Better get a gap year. Travel, do little jobs, meet people, take time to discover what the world can offer.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
The career I wanted at 18 has zero to do with what I ended up being interested in doing, or what I am doing as a career. 18 is not a good age to choose. Why do you think college curriculum has you take classes in everything to satisfy credits, then wait until your junior year to take classes in that subject? Because you need those two years to look into the different fields the school offers majors in, and take electives in different subjects to see if you like them BEFORE you declare your major at age 20 instead of 18?
Izzy Donovan 3 years ago
I’m 37 and about to go for a 4 year degree.. so never to late to choose your future.
Mark Buckrell 3 years ago
#1 is a funny take. That is, if you are super focussed, you will study and get the experience, not just pray the success into happening.
What do you think ?
Mark Fuller 3 years ago
This post is so depressingly bleak because it's so entirely true. Especially the ones about "good education"; "loyalty to an employer"; "affordable housing" and "climate change". I genuinely feel for the generations to follow. It's hard enough as it is and shows no sign of stopping. I'm convinced we will eventually see a reversal of population growth as people begin to realise brining a child into this world isn't actually a particularly nice thing to do...
Dee 3 years ago
That timeshares are real estate you can sell. They are scams that can rarely be dumped. Maintenance fees will supercede the value of the unit.
West Hermans 3 years ago
Don't discount the "you can be anything you want".
That article is currently followed by this: where a dog ran away to follow his dream of winning in a dog show. Untitled-6...d9a956.jpg 
Dl B 3 years ago
I am so done with BP. Used to be a nice humor site not it is either political or bashing. USA bashing, boomer bashing, etc.
Bored Retsuko 3 years ago
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Susan Jennette 3 years ago
The reason BOOMERS aren't retiring is you keep adding to the BOOMER pool. The boomers were the children born nine months or so after the men came back from WW2. That ended in the 40s. I was born in the 60s. MY PARENTS were BOOMERS I can't be in the same generation as my parents, but there it is. So this so called BOOMER isn't at retirement age yet. DO some math. You can even use a calculator if you want.
Monique Rosewood 2 years ago
On #3 what they actually were saying is that if you're rich you can get away with crime, that doesn't mean crime pays. Also, you can buy a house without credit. That's how I'm in mine. Through owner finance.
Hypoxia Smurf 3 years ago
First thought: The whole 'generation' thang is bogus. For USAnians born 1945-1955 (or in any other era) attitudes and outcomes quite depended on race, income, social status, and location. My 1950s Los Angeles suburb had on its edges colleges, state prisons, auto race tracks, missile factories, and farms. What my local cohort shared was fear of nuclear war. I'll propose a 'boomer' motto: We weren't nuked.
Mark Fuller 3 years ago
This post is so depressingly bleak because it's so entirely true. Especially the ones about "good education"; "loyalty to an employer"; "affordable housing" and "climate change". I genuinely feel for the generations to follow. It's hard enough as it is and shows no sign of stopping. I'm convinced we will eventually see a reversal of population growth as people begin to realise brining a child into this world isn't actually a particularly nice thing to do...
Dee 3 years ago
That timeshares are real estate you can sell. They are scams that can rarely be dumped. Maintenance fees will supercede the value of the unit.
West Hermans 3 years ago
Don't discount the "you can be anything you want".
That article is currently followed by this: where a dog ran away to follow his dream of winning in a dog show. Untitled-6...d9a956.jpg
Dl B 3 years ago
I am so done with BP. Used to be a nice humor site not it is either political or bashing. USA bashing, boomer bashing, etc.
Bored Retsuko 3 years ago
Friendly reminder: downvotes are NOT dislike buttons. Downvoting a comment just because you don't agree = not cool. If a comment gets downvoted, its author will get banned from the site. So please downvote only in case of obvious spam ("how to make cash") or if someone is literally harrassing a fellow panda
Susan Jennette 3 years ago
The reason BOOMERS aren't retiring is you keep adding to the BOOMER pool. The boomers were the children born nine months or so after the men came back from WW2. That ended in the 40s. I was born in the 60s. MY PARENTS were BOOMERS I can't be in the same generation as my parents, but there it is. So this so called BOOMER isn't at retirement age yet. DO some math. You can even use a calculator if you want.
Monique Rosewood 2 years ago
On #3 what they actually were saying is that if you're rich you can get away with crime, that doesn't mean crime pays. Also, you can buy a house without credit. That's how I'm in mine. Through owner finance.
Hypoxia Smurf 3 years ago
First thought: The whole 'generation' thang is bogus. For USAnians born 1945-1955 (or in any other era) attitudes and outcomes quite depended on race, income, social status, and location. My 1950s Los Angeles suburb had on its edges colleges, state prisons, auto race tracks, missile factories, and farms. What my local cohort shared was fear of nuclear war. I'll propose a 'boomer' motto: We weren't nuked.
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